For local development, I prefer to use the Sites folder in my Home directory rather than the default Library/WebServer/Documents. When the time came for me to start local development on my MacBook again, I was immediately frustrated when I discovered that http://localhost/ no longer redirected to my Sites directory.
The problem? A recent Time Machine restore which failed to recreate the following directory:
/private/var/log/apache2
The fix was quite simple. Apparently restoring from a Time Machine backup is not as complete as Apple would have you believing.
sudo mkdir /private/var/log/apache2
The fix is rather simple, but altogether an extra step that Time Machine users should not have to bother with.
Personally, while I continue to let Time Machine with a WD 750GB external
Are you backing up data regularly? Keep an eye on Reserve Chute for backing up your data in the "cloud".
I tried play around with MacPorts to do everything and satisfied with it. And I never use Time Machine. Because I still didn’t have any external disk
Thanks for this