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Apache issues with permission on mac 10.10

having trouble getting apache to access /Users/username/Documents for a PHP project.

httpd.conf

User admin
Group staff

username.conf

AllowOverride All
Options Indexes MultiViews
Options +FollowSymlinks
Require all granted

Folder permission

drwxr-xr-x /Users
drwxr-xr-x+ /Users/kristiannissen
drwx------+ /Users/kristiannissen/Documents

when I access my project URL I get this in the apache error log

[Thu Oct 23 21:25:58.528515 2014] [core:error] [pid 1887] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:52157] AH00035: access to / denied (filesystem path '/Users/kristiannissen/Documents') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Oct 23 21:27:45.287472 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1882] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

I followed the guide from http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-10-yosemite/ for some of this, but it's still not working.

It was working perfectly before upgrading to os 10.10, now localhost no longer shows "It works" from apache anymore.

Solution

  • from the link. do you have the file /etc/apache2/users/kristiannissen.conf ?

    and does that file contain 

    <Directory "/Users/kristiannissen/Sites/">
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes MultiViews
Options +FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
</Directory>

    in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf there is this section 

    <Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

    Which blocks access to everything on / you need to specifically allow what you want. And since it it apache 2.4, you need to use the Require syntax as opposed to the Allow syntax, but adding the kristiannissen.conf file as indicated above and restarting apache should fix it.