Create the Apache conf file for your user

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$ sudo cat > /etc/apache2/users/`whoami`.conf

Add the following to that file (change <username> to your Mac’s username)

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<Directory "/Users/<username>/Sites/">
     Options Indexes MultiViews
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
</Directory>

Complete the setup (this is where your sites will go)

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$ mkdir ~/Sites

Start Apache

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$ sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start

This will also setup Apache to relaunch on system restarts.

To stop Apache, as well as disabling it for relaunch on system restarts,

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$ sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl stop

To restart a running Apache

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$ sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

Access your sites as

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http://localhost/~<username>/