My Apache localhost is not working - Forbidden - php

Question

I am completely new to PHP and web servers. I have a test PHP file. When I run this in the terminal I can see that PHP is working "php /Users/Fryza/Sites/phptest.php"
When I type these into the web browser I get 403 Forbidden error:
http://localhost/~fryza/phptest.php
http://localhost/phptest.php
I have a file (/private/etc/apache2/users/fryza.conf) that has these contents:
<Directory "/Users/fryza/Sites/">
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
My DocumentRoot in private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf is /Users/Fryza/Sites/
I also have this directory /Library/Webserver/Documents - I used to have this as the document root but it wasn't working in this location either.
I have read through a bunch of stack overflow posts but they are not working for me.
The apache server definitely is running. PHP is working. Just can't get the files to load in the browser.
I'm running Mountain Lion
I did the same tutorial as the guy here and am having the same problem:
403 Forbidden error when accessing localhost on Mac OS X10.8
This is the error log:
[Mon Oct 28 17:57:17 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Oct 28 17:57:17 2013] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Mon Oct 28 17:57:17 2013] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping
[Mon Oct 28 17:57:17 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Oct 28 17:57:17 2013] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Oct 28 17:57:17 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.26 mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/0.9.8y configured -- resuming normal operations
Access Log:
::1 - - [28/Oct/2013:18:05:38 -0700] "GET /~fryza/phptest.php HTTP/1.1" 403 220

Answer 1

If you are running skype, your localhost will not run because skype also use the port as localhost. but when you run localhost first before skype it will work.
but when skype run first, you must end task by pressing ctr+alt+del then task manager and select skype then end task..
but that's only for info..
the real deal here is how your localhost work..
try to do this.
click the icon of your wamp server on the right bottom of your computer..
then click Restart All Services..
And run your localhost.
That's all I know.. Im a newbie here.. tnx :)

Answer 2

I finally figured it out. I don't know WHY this worked - but it did.
I changed my fryza.conf file from:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
To:
<Directory />
#Options FollowSymLinks
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
Can someone explain why this worked?