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Upgrading to Mac OS X Mavericks Breaks Apache

I decided to upgrade to Mavericks today. Things went pretty smooth, right up until trying to continue work. I don’t use Vagrant or MAMP, but rather the built in Apache2 (with PHP, etc installed via Homebrew).

My VirtualHosts in /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf were kept, but going to http://localhost/ took me to the default “It Works!” page. I quickly discovered that the httpd.conf file was reset. Stuff I had to do to fix it below.

  • In httpd.conf, uncomment Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
  • In httpd.conf, include the path to mod_php, in my case LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/Cellar/php54/5.4.19/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
  • Create a file <yourusername>.conf in /etc/apache2/users with content
/etc/apache2/users/bram.conf
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<Directory "/path/to/your/sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
  • Chown the file sudo chown root:wheel /etc/apache2/users/<yourusername>.conf
  • Restart Apache with sudo apachectl restart

That fixed it for me.