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I'm trying to set up Apache which includes putting this path into httpd-vhosts.conf file:

DocumentRoot "/usr/local/var/www"

but I can't find the folder. The only path that seems to resemble the folder is /private/var but it doesn't contain a www folder/file. Where is it located?

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    You are free to set DocumentRoot to whatever value you want - the only restriction is that the user that runs the Apache web server must be able to read the directory contents. If you don't want to create /usr/local/var/www, use a different directory, for example /Library/WebServer/Documents (this is the directory the Apache web server included with macOS uses, see /etc/apache2/httpd.conf).
    – jaume
    Jul 9, 2022 at 12:23
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    Many guides for Apache on macOS do prefer ~/Sites and /Library/WebServer/Documents so use caution if you prefer /usr/local and everyone needs to watch for Previous Items when updates run. Avoiding [ACL permissions](apple.stackexchange.com/a/365364/5472 ) might be a good reason for local based storage and posix permissions.
    – bmike ♦
    Jul 10, 2022 at 11:43

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As an admin user, run

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/www
sudo chown _www:_www /usr/local/var/www

User/group _www is the default setting in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. If you have a different user/group for your webserver, you need to adapt the second command accordingly.

To make this work with whatever path is defined in httpd.conf, run

docroot=$(sed -E -n '/^DocumentRoot/{
s|.*\"(.*)\"|\1|p
q
}' /path/to/httpd.conf)
sudo mkdir -p "$docroot"
sudo chown _www:_www "$docroot"

(the first four lines are one command, but macOS sed expects function lists to be separated by newlines.)

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