macOS Sierra: Localhost will not connect

Question

I just updated to Sierra from El Capitan. When I went to continue my work on my localhost, which happens to be on my Mac, it stopped working. When I go to http://localhost/ 1st it says "It works", when I reload the page, it says "This site can't be reached", the same when I go to localhost/~matthew . It does not list all the files and folders like it should. Does anybody know why or have had a similar problem? Any way to fix it? I've checked Terminal and localhost is in fact running.

I've already tried using localhost/~matthew/ , http://localhost/~matthew/ and [actual ip address]/~matthew/ . None of these work. The server is apache. The Sites folder is already in place under Users/Matthew/ .

Answer 1

If you uncommened loading php5_module in the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, DO NOT COMMENT OUT. Make sure this line commented (which means, # has to be prefixed) #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so Also, when you change httpd.conf file, make sure to execute sudo apachectl restart