Separate directory install, permalinks fail w/ authz_core error

OS: Mac – El Capitan
Environment – userdir setup.

I’ve installed wordpress in ~uname/php/wordpress & it seems to be ok – mysql db is set up properly.

Will be adding more wp sites in their own directory, referencing the single install instance.

Created a directory ~uname/testblog for the initial test, following the directions in the “Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory” doc, under the “Using a Pre-existing Subdirectory” section.

in the “testblog” directory, my index.php looks like this:

require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../php/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' );

Which is interesting because I seem to have to use a relative ‘..’ to get it to see the /php/wordpress directory.

My .htaccess looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

So, the site comes up, I can see the initial posts. However, when I hit any of permalinks to an entry, I get this error in the http error log:

[Wed May 25 11:29:20.753365 2016] [authz_core:error] [pid 46545] [client ::1:50331] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/docs

Seems to be an authz error – I didn’t supply authz credentials when installing and don’t seem to be able to supply them (if I knew what they were) after installation.

Is there something in the config process that I missed? What are the entries and what values does it expect for those entries?

Do I need to reinstall to specify them?