Configuring Apache in OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite

Configuration

• Create a folder to hold your sites, or choose an existing folder
• Typical example would be: ~/Sites ( /Users/{username}/Sites/ )
• Open or create apache configuration file for given user
• vi /etc/apache2/users/{username}.conf
• Note: there are many options, will try to describe them later

 <Directory "/Users/{username}/Sites">  
   addlanguage en .en  
   LanguagePriority en fr de  
   ForceLanguagePriority Fallback  
   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks  
   Require all granted  
   AllowOverride All  
   Order allow,deny  
   Allow from all  
 </Directory>  

• Modify you virtual hosts
• vi /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

 <VirtualHost *:80>  
   DocumentRoot /Users/{username}/Sites/  
   ServerName localhost  
   ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/localhost-error_log"  
   CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/localhost-access_log" common  
 </VirtualHost>   

• Modify User Dir configuration
• vi /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf 
• Make sure 'UserDir' is set to your dir, for example 'Sites"
• Uncomment: Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

 UserDir Sites  
 #  
 # Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example  
 # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.  
 #  
 Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf  
 <IfModule bonjour_module>  
     RegisterUserSite customized-users  
 </IfModule>  

• Configure apache modules in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
• Uncomment the modules
• Make sure to uncomment the 2 files we are including, user dir and virtual hosts

 LoadModule deflate_module libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so   
 LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so   
 LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so   
 Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf   
 Include/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf  

• Restart apache server - sudo apachectl restart 
• Make sure apache is working - http://localhost/
• Test apache for local user - http://localhost/~{username}/