Comments on: Setting up virtual hosts on OS X Leopard

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

By: Cysgoddyn

Cysgoddyn — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:15:20 +0000

Wow, that’s great. Mark’s 24th June post is a very useful tip if you need to debug IE on PCs. Thanks for taking time to explain this in plain english.

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By: kirby.mark

kirby.mark — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:40:20 +0000

Thanks for the nice comments, glad to be of help. Fossli – to access a site on your LAN you would need to change the hosts file on the machine you want to access from, point the url you want to use to the ip address of the machine you want to host the site on, and set the site up on that machine with the virtual host. So basically repeat step 2 for every machine on your network that will access the locally hosted site, and instead of 127.0.0.1 you use the IP address of the computer hosting the site (e.g. 192.168.0.10).