localhost / userdir on macOS High Sierra

Question

There's a tutorial here Setting up a local web server on macOS 10.13 "High Sierra"

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12034

localhost works but user shortname - fails.

What gives?

Answer 1

Like on Sierra vhosts seem to need to be activated

so:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and uncomment the following lines by removing the hashtag (#)

.#LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so

and

.#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

then

sudo apachectl restart

and you'll be good to go