How to allow acces to a symbolic link in my ~/Sites/ for Apache under Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

Here is a blog post I wrote when I was trying to figure out how to do exactly what you are trying to do.

Enable Web Sharing on the MAC by going to System Prefrences —> Sharing —> Check Enable Web Sharing

Edit your username.conf file located in /private/etc/apache2/users and add the “FollowSymLinks” directive:

<Directory "/Users/yourUserName/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Edit the /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file and make sure the line under “# Virtual hosts” is not commented out, like so:
```
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
```

Edit the /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file and add:

<VirtualHost *:80>  
    <Directory /Users/yourUserName/Sites/MyWebSite.com>
        Options +FollowSymlinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
  DocumentRoot /Users/yourUserName/Sites/MyWebSite
  ServerName MyWebSite.local
</VirtualHost>

Edit the /etc/hosts file and add this at the top:
```
127.0.0.1 MyWebSite.local
```
Make a Symlink to link your Code directory to one in the Sites directory.
```
ln -s ~/Code/MyWebSite ~/Sites/MyWebSite
```
Restart apache

In fact only the first 2 steps from Emjay's answer plus an apache restart are necessary, here is what worked for me:

Enable Web Sharing on the MAC by going to System Prefrences —> Sharing —> Check enabled Web Sharing

Edit your username.conf file located in /private/etc/apache2/users and add the FollowSymLinks directive:

<Directory "/Users/yourUserName/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

check your apache config

sudo apachectl -t
restart apache

sudo apachectl restart

Now Apache will serve the symbolic links under your Sites directory.

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