OS X 10.9 Mavericks - Localhost Setup with VHosts

Question

I have just been trying to setup a local apache server on osx. Everything was going well until I enabled vhosts.

When I navigate to a site setup in vhosts (local.dev) all I get is a 403 forbidden error saying you do not have permission to access / on this server.

The route of the site in question is '/www/local/public/'. The folder path exists and running apachectl -S and the syntax of the vhosts file was correct.

I have looked at the permissions of the folder and have even tried setting everyone to read and write, but no luck. I have set my permissions on the folder to read/write as well as permissions for the _www group.

If you have any ideas on where I am going wrong that would be much appreciated!

I have looked for a few answers on here but not been able to find anything that has worked for me.

Looking at the default document root for apache, the only permission I have missing on the /www/ folder is for an account called 'system'. I am unable to add this system account to the permissions of the folder as it does not appear in the get info option on the folder.

Thanks,

Joe

Answer 1

As with all of my questions it seems, I have found an answer!

I managed to get everything working smoothly by adding the following to my /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file inside of the <VirtualHost *:80> that was setup for local.dev

<Directory "/www/local/public">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

So the overall vhosts config for local.dev would look like the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/www/local/public"
    ServerName local.dev
    <Directory "/www/local/public">
        ... Above code here ...
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I added this, then restarted apache, and everything worked smoothly.