Comments on: Setting up virtual hosts on OS X Leopard to Lion

By: JL

JL — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:49:31 +0000

Thanks so much. This was super helpful.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:53:43 +0000

I am currently hosting a single website on my macMini. The content files are contained in /Library/Webserver/Documents. I need to host two more sites so that these are available to the outside world. I have searched for days for instructions on how to do this. I am assuming that I need to use Virtual Hosts, but all of the explanations say that these are available only on the host machine and not to the outside world.

Your help would be appreciated

By: james

james — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:44:37 +0000

Great tutorial. Easy to follow and accomplished in minutes. The brackets are initially confusing, but once it became obvious those should not be included, it worked exactly as described. Many thanks

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:23:15 +0000

Wow, you just made my life easier! Before I’d read this, I’d been setting up a virtual host according to my IP address, which changes everytime I login to the router!

Now I’m using 127.0.0.1, I’ll never have to worry about that again once I’ve setup a site, so thanks very much for your help!

By: David

David — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:33:20 +0000

Thanks so much for this great tutorial. It worked fabulously!!!

By: Opally

Opally — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:58:49 +0000

Thanks very much for taking the time to write this. I couldn’t get my virtual hosts working with my MacPorts Apache2 installation until I read your tutorial and realized I had to edit the hosts file.

By: John Cruz

John Cruz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:47:49 +0000

Great tutorial!!! Thank You. Got it Working.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:32:42 +0000

Hey thanks for the tutorial, any reason why my request would be resolving to /Users/username/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/fbtmp/example.com

By: zakkap

zakkap — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:22:02 +0000

Apache require that you name the virtual host if theres more than one.

Here is what needs to be placed on the first line of your vhosts.

NameVirtualHost *

Worked for me.

By: fossli

fossli — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:39:56 +0000

Ok. thanks kirby.mark. I get a new ip every day…that’s why i asked. i can see the solution is to get one static ip-adress…
thanks