XAMPP does not serve website outside htdocs on Mac

[hmd1001]

I have spent quite some time on this, did everything I could, but could not make it work. This is my VHost code

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 <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName peshawar.dev
    ServerAlias www.peshawar.dev
    DocumentRoot "/Users/myname/Code/project.co"
    <Directory "/Users/myname/Code/project.co/">       
        AllowOverride all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

In the httpd.conf, I rename deamon user and replaced it with my actual username as follows

User myname*
Group myname*

This does not work. I get "Object not found". If I created a symbolic folder within htdocs which points to the folder, then I get access denied error. I am not sure what the issue is. Help would be appreciated.