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I set the document rot to be my ~/Sites directory. I create subdirectories under that. Of course, I have to load http://localhost:8888/directory-name/, which is probably the thing you're trying to avoid, but I can have multiple open.

And you don't even need Headdress if you don't mind a little manual text editing. Here's how:

1. With a text editor that can open hidden files (eg TextWrangler (free) or TextMate), open /private/etc/hosts

2. Find the line which reads:

127.0.0.1    localhost

3. add the name of your chosen virtualhosts at the end of this line, separating each of them with a space, like this:

127.0.0.1    localhost mytestdomain1.dev mytestdomain2.dev

4. Save the file. You will need to provide an Administrator password to do this.

5. Create a folder for each of your test domains in the Sites folder in your home folder, eg:
/Users/myusername/Sites/mytestdomain1.dev
/Users/myusername/Sites/mytestdomain2.dev

6. Now open the MAMP httpd.conf, which you can find in /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf

7. At the end of this file, insert the following:

NameVirtualHost *:80


    
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites"

</VirtualHost>

    
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mytestdomain1.dev
    DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites/mytestdomain1.dev"

</VirtualHost>

    
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mytestdomain2.dev
    DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites/mytestdomain2.dev"

</VirtualHost>

8. In the MAMP preferences, choose the Ports section and click on the "Use default Apache and MySQL ports". Now stop the MAMP servers and restart them again.

You should now be able to reach all of your test domains at the same time, using just the domain name as the address, none of this "localhost:8888/mytestdomain1/" stuff.

Last edited by springworks (2007-08-06 16:33:25)

greyfodder wrote:

Hey springworks, just tried this and got it working! How fantastic! What I'd love next is Bonjour, so I can see/work on the network. Anyway to do this?

Glad you got it working greyfodder.

Wish I could help with getting it working with Bonjour, but I wouldn't even know where to start I'm afraid - it would be cool though ;-)

I'm guessing that you would need to set up a local DNS service for it to work over your local network and that is way out of my depth!

I'm liking MAMP very much at the moment and think I'll be running into this multiple folder issue soon enough.

I'm using andrewbarnet's simple method of just creating subfolders under the Sites folder...and then navigating to http://localhost:8888/ where I get list of my sites to choose from.

While I'm happy with this I'd be keen to know if there are other advantages from seemingly more sophisticated approach above. A few extra mouse clicks don't bother me especially if it keeps it simple, but I'd like to start doing things properly.

ta

bsp

That makes sense, thanks. Will continue with the folder based approach for the time being.

britishseapower wrote:

springworks, after setting this up it's not quite working.

after running into a lot of problems with relative paths I need to set this up like you,
what's your document root set to in MAMP?

Hi bsp,

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this - I've been away on holiday.

I've got my document root set to the Sites folder in my home folder (/Users/myusername/Sites).

Hope this helps.

Steve

For anyone interested, I got it working like this....

httpd.conf extract

### Section 3: Virtual Hosts

    
#
    

    
VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
        
machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
        
use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
        
IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
    
#
        
Please see the documentation at 
        
<URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/>
        
for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
    
#
        
You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
    
    

    
configuration.

    
#
        
Use name-based virtual hosting.
    
    
#

    
NameVirtualHost *

    
<VirtualHost *>
   DocumentRoot "/Users/rupert/Sites"
   ServerName localhost

</VirtualHost>

    
<VirtualHost *>
   DocumentRoot "/Users/rupert/Sites/europa"
   ServerName europa.dev

</VirtualHost>

    
<VirtualHost *>
   DocumentRoot "/Users/rupert/Sites/firestation"
   ServerName firestation.dev

</VirtualHost>

hosts

##

    

    
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 europa

127.0.0.1       localhost firestation.dev europa.dev

All is well with the world, localhostin' makes me happy - specially when it works. :-)

If anyone has any tips how i can make this rig even closer to the Textdrive setup would appreciate it.

hi again,
it works great on my intel mac just not on my ppc. no probs only need it on one.
Your the man springworks.
-best
kevin

Lamancha wrote:

Springworks/Anyone, Any idea how you would tweak this to allow other local machines to "see" the dev sites? I need to test on IE on a local PC, bit can't work out how to share access.

You would need to edit the host file on each local machine to match the .dev address to the IP of your development machine.

So, for instance, if your local development machine had the IP address 192.168.1.1, then you would add the following line to the hosts file on any other local computer to point them to your development machine:

192.168.1.1    mytestdomain1.dev mytestdomain2.dev

On a Mac , the hosts file can be found at /private/etc/hosts

Not sure where you would find it on a PC, sorry.

Hope this helps.

Sorry, can't help you there I'm afraid as I'm still on Tiger

Does this help? --> When I use mysqldump it is via the command line, where I do something like:

mysqldump DatabaseName --add-drop-table -h localhost -u Username -pPassword > ~/OutPutFile.sql

So in this example it would end up in the base level of your user directory: machinename/users/username/OutPutFile.sql

locate mysqldump, if you need to update the locate db then run updatedb

I like using MAMP with VirtualHostX, VHX makes managing virtual hosts under MAMP a snap.

http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/

If you install VHX after MAMP, it should detect that you have MAMP installed and set it up for you. If not here's a GetSatisfaction link on how other have gotten these to work together.

http://getsatisfaction.com/clickontyler/topics/how_do_i_get_virtualhostx_mamp_and_the_php_within_mamp_to_work