在运行Apache 2.4的osx 10.10中，在localhost / username中，“随机”禁止某些页面，而现在则禁止其他页面

Question

I have set up a webserver for the first time.

When I type http://localhost/yaniv/index.html in the browser, the page loads perfectly. When I do the same with register.html also, no problem, but many other files, like "profile.html" and many other return an error:

Permission denied.

This is my user.conf file

<Directory "/Users/yaniv/Sites/">
 Options Indexes MultiViews
 AllowOverride All
 # OSX 10.10 / Apache 2.4
 Require all granted
</Directory>

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Most likely this is a permission issue on file system level.

Keep in mind that the http server process is executed under a specific user account. That account requires access to the files, typically read access. It is easy to miss that step when you create files using an ordinary user account.

A typical solution on unixoid systems (so Mac OS too) is to use group permissions. You you assign all the files to the group the http server account belongs to and grant group read access to all files. You can "automate" this by means of the umask feature in modern shells. You can read about that in the man pages (if you have them installed).