This might be very late answer but i did followed most of Stack Overflow solutions, None of them helped me for various reasons. So i did reset my device as a fresh Yosemite OS to get this localhost working on Mac Yosemite (with Symlinks too),
Steps I did exactly :
sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Uncomment the following lines:
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
to
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
#LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
to
LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
to
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
Save and Exit (Ctrl+X press Enter and press Y and enter again)
sudo nano /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
and uncomment the following line at line 16:
#Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf
to
Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf
Save and Exit (Ctrl+X press Enter and press Y and enter again).
Now go to apache Users folder to check your configuration file exist or not
cd /etc/apache2/users/
if you do not have configuration file in this folder, create one by
sudo nano /etc/apache2/users/<**YOUR USERNAME**>.conf
Replace <YOUR USERNAME> with the name of your machine (type whoami in terminal and enter that name).
after creating .conf file , copy below lines into that file
<Directory "/Users/<YOUR USERNAME>/Sites/">
AddLanguage en .en
LanguagePriority en fr de
ForceLanguagePriority Fallback
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from localhost
Require all granted
</Directory>
save and Exit
Now restart your apache
sudo apachectl restart
Now go to your browser and type localhost, it should work as expected,
Just as a Note: if it does not work even after try restarting your computer
create index.html as exactly index.html.en that you should find here:
open /Library/Webserver/Documents/
right click on index.html.en and duplicate it to index.html leaving original as it is
try again in browser and if you have success, you can delete the duplicated file
Just to be clear, leave the original file index.html.en where it is, untouched and unharmed throughout this step.
Not sure why I had to take this mysterious detour - probably something local to my machine, but if you're having trouble after following the guide above, see if it helps.
SymLinks :
if you have success, in Browser you should see
It works!
Now create symlink to any your project.
ln -s <Path_to_your_Project(index_file)> <Path_to_webroot>
For example if you have project folder in your Documents folder ,then point webroot to your index file by
ln -s /Users/<YOUR USERNAME>/Documents/project/ /Library/Webserver/documents/projectlink
you might need permission to create symlink (Use above command with Sudo)
Configure apache to follow symlinks ( Thanks to tomvon, i do not enough points to vote you)
sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
on line 250 (in Yosemite) change:
Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews
to:
Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews Indexes
then in the Terminal run:
sudo apachectl restart
Now go to localhost/projectlink to see if your project index file shows here on browser.
Happy Coding..
