David Dubbeldam
Creating a local web-server on MacOS Big Sur
Start the builtin Apache server
You should now be able to direct your browser to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ and see in the browser ‘ it works!’. The default Apache configuration reads from
Apple recommends to create a directory ‘Sites’ in your home account and run your local user website from there. First, create the directory for the website in your home directory
Next, navigate to the apache user configuration directory
where you should see a file with your user name ending with ‘.conf’.
Modify it to
Navigate to the parent directory, and make a backup of the original ‘https.conf’ file.
Edit the file
and uncomment line 16
Next, edit the file
and uncomment line 113
lines 186 and 187
lines 524
and line 555 (the last line)
Make sure the following lines are also uncommented
Finally, restart the apache server
Test the configuration by pointing the browser to you local user site
where ‘username’ is your account name. The account name can found by the command
Thanks for putting this together. It helped me out big time. I’m used to doing this on Linux, but never did it on a Mac before. Your guide helped me out. Thanks again.