[thelist] Setting up Apache on Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Jeffrey Barke]

Thanks, Hassan.

Note that I have no experience in setting up or running Apache locally.

> It's not clear to me what you're showing is in httpd.conf  
> or .htaccess.

What I sent was in the httpd.conf. Most of it was there by default, I  
simply added "/sites" to DocumentRoot and changed AllowOverride from  
None to All in the two <Directory> settings.

>
> Regardless, have you run apachectl -t  and looked in your error log?
>

No. I'm not even sure where the error logs are on the Mac.

> Since I needed to get back on that horse anyway, I just downloaded
> and compiled 2.2.8 on my Mac (10.5.2) and .htaccess works fine with
> a simple Require user directive.
>

I don't know what the Require user directive is (though I could Google  
it), however I didn't download or compile Apache, since it's installed  
by default. I simply opened System Preferences > Sharing and enabled  
Web Sharing. PHP 5 is also installed by default, so I opened  
httpd.conf and uncommented the LoadModule command.

 From <http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10761/enabling-htaccess-on-mac-os-x 
 >:
"Not so, recently, but I ran into a big stumbling block when I  
discovered OS X’s Apache comes pre-configured to ignore .htaccess files.

"So I’m not going to feel too bad about scratching my head for a  
minute before realizing I should check to make sure the httpd.conf  
file had support for .htaccess files enabled, but the second point,  
and I know this thanks to Richard Rutter’s Clagnut, support must also  
be enabled in the user’s http.conf file (located in /private/etc/httpd/ 
users/). For full details, go read Rutter’s enabling .htaccess in OS X  
post."

The httpd.conf edits I showed you were done per this article: <http://www.clagnut.com/blog/350/ 
 >

Jeffrey

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