Comments on: How To: MacOS, Apache and Virtual Hosts

By: CpILL

CpILL — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:28:10 +0000

Also, you can put step 3 into your /etc/apache2/users/matt.conf file. I think its recommended somewhere (by someone official sounding)

But note: Timemachine DOES NOT backup your apache2 configuration(s) OR your “host” file. Just discovered this after losing my hard disk and have spent a couple of hours redoing all my virtual domains I’m developing locally

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:17:09 +0000

Thanks for highlighting that. I’ve corrected the code.

By: Martin & Co

Martin & Co — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:21:41 +0000

Very, very cool ! But there is just a little error :

You’ve write

DocumentRoot “/Users/matt/Sites/themattharris.com” ServerName http://www.themattharris.com

And it’s

DocumentRoot “/Users/matt/Sites/themattharris.com” ServerName http://www.themattharris.com

Thanks again.

PS : I’m french and my english is very poor… Sorry…

By: Jack King

Jack King — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:56:17 +0000

Thanks for your very clearly written and thorough procedure. I work with the Disabled Students Organization at UC Berkeley. Our local mac web server was still running Tiger because it had complex php programming built around a MAMP environment with half a dozen Virtual Hosts.

We started getting UC Berkeley campus security warnings that said our PHP version was out of date and had many potential security holes. I was under the gun to get everything updated Leopard with the most recent version of Apache 2 and PHP 5.

I'm glad you mentioned checking the error_log files because I was doing everything right but forget to fix the pathway to the new error_log file in each declaration of VirtualHosts. This error apparently was enough to break Apache whenever I uncommented the include to the virtual host file.

Thanks again - I'll be sure to mention this blog to out WebNet group on campus.

Jack King Disabled Students UC Berkeley

By: ekynoxe

ekynoxe — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:56:52 +0000

Hi Matt, I ended on your post because I am trying to configure my vhosts on my machine.

Basically, I know my way around and I have setup the vhosts the same way than you do in this tutorial, but if the vhost and my host files are picked up properly, any vhost I set up renders exactly as what I'd have going to 127.0.0.1, in other terms, with any vhost I set up and try, I end up at the document root of my web server.

I was wondering if it is something you came through.

Cheeers! Matt

By: phil

phil — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:45:58 +0000

Thanks for the info. Worked like a charm.