Starting built in Apache server in Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Question

I'd like to start my apache server in my Mac OSX Mavericks. Here is what I did:

1. launch the terminal application
2. sudo apachectl start
3. The server started without problem. But I got the following problem when I tried to open the localhost in web browser:

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Here is my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: (I didn't change anything here)

DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all </Directory>

<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>

Can anybody advise what could be the cause ? Thanks

Answer 1

First, point to a file you know is present. By default there is no index.html or similar file (it produces the "It Works!" page from index.html.en

ls /Library/WebServer/Documents
PoweredByMacOSX.gif
PoweredByMacOSXLarge.gif
index.html.en

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/PoweredByMacOSX.gif

Next, try repairing permissions. If that doesn't work:

sudo chown -R root.wheel /Library/WebServer/Documents
sudo chmod -R a+rX /Library/WebServer/Documents

When in doubt:

sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error_log

Answer 2

Easy way to start apanche server in mavrick

execute this command

sudo apachectl start

sudo apachectl stop

sudo apachectl restart