How to create virtual hosts in MAMP?

Question

I am new to Mac but used Ubuntu for development for a long time. I know how to create virtual hosts in Ubuntu but have no idea about Mac. I have created a hosts entry like below :

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost mysite.loc
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost

But what to do next?

Answer 1

While googling, I found these steps to easily create virtual hosts on MAMP:

1. Open your console in mac and edit your hosts file like this

   sudo vim /etc/hosts

This opens a system file that contains the following line:

127.0.0.1    localhost 

add your desired host name after local host:

127.0.0.1    localhost mysite.loc 

press ESC, then :wq! to overwrite and close the file.

2. Now go to your MAMP directory and open apache config file located at /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf in any text editor and locate the following lines:

# Virtual Hosts # Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf 

Remove the hash (pound) sign from the beginning of the line that begins with Include

# Virtual Hosts Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf 

Save the file, and then open Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. This is where you define the virtual hosts.

3. At the bottom of the page are two examples of how to define virtual hosts in Apache. They look like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>     ServerAdmin [email protected]     DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/Library/docs/dummy-host.example.com"     ServerName dummy-host.example.com     ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com     ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"     CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common </VirtualHost>  <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerAdmin [email protected]     DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/Library/docs/dummy-host2.example.com"     ServerName dummy-host2.example.com     ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error_log"     CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access_log" common </VirtualHost> 

Edit both examples. Virtual hosts override the existing localhost, so the first one needs to re-establish localhost. Edit the second one for the virtual host you want to add. Only the DocumentRoot and ServerName directives are required. To add a virtual host for mysite, the edited definitions should look like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>     DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs     ServerName localhost </VirtualHost>  <VirtualHost *:80>     DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites/mysite"     ServerName mysite.loc </VirtualHost> 

This assumes that you want to locate the files for mysite in your Sites folder. Replace "username" in the second definition with your own Mac username. If you want to store the files in a different location, adjust the value of DocumentRoot accordingly.

If you want to create more than one virtual host, copy one of the definitions, and edit it accordingly.

Save all the files you have edited, and restart the servers in the MAMP control panel. You should now be able to access the virtual host with the following URL: http://mysite.loc/.

Enjoy..!!

Answer 2

1. Allow virtual hosts

   Go to Applications > MAMP > conf > apache > httpd.conf

   Find this line:

   # Virtual hosts
   #Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
   

   Uncomment the code by removing the hash symbol.

   # Virtual hosts
   Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
   

2. Allow SymLink Override

   Find this line in that same httpd.conf file.

   <Directory />
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride None
   </Directory>
   

   change None to All.

   <Directory />
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
   </Directory>
   

3. Add the virtual host path

   Go to Applications > MAMP > conf > apache > extra > httpd-vhosts.conf

   add the virtual host with servname and document root like the below code

   <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName example.dev
     DocumentRoot "/path/to/directory"
   </VirtualHost>
   

4. Allow your computer to recognize your local domain

   Open terminal and type

   sudo pico /etc/hosts
   

   then add your domain

   127.0.0.1 example.dev
   

5. Restart your server.

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