Comments on: Setting up virtual hosts on OS X Leopard

By: Luke Dorny

Luke Dorny — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:48:33 +0000

Removing the smartquotes in the code sections would be extremely helpful. took me forever to notice that the smartquotes were pasted in, instead of regular code-quotes.

Thanks for the article.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:21:28 +0000

Thanks, helpful. Another minor error: in the ‘Permission problems’ section, you say that Jeremy Keith “adds a directive to his hosts file.” This didn’t work for me, so I checked JK’s own site: the directive should of course go in the httpd-vhosts.conf file.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:53:59 +0000

Thanks! This information really helps me to solve my virtual hosts problems.

By: KinRou Blog » Setting up virtual hosts on Leopard

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By: kirby.mark

kirby.mark — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:41:50 +0000

Thanks Quinn, stupid mistake, now corrected

By: Quinn Taylor

Quinn Taylor — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:45:49 +0000

I found that the syntax for CustomLog in the examples is incorrect.

Rather than:
CustomLog “/User/username/Sites/logs/mark-kirby-access-log common”
it should be:
CustomLog “/User/username/Sites/logs/mark-kirby-access-log” common

This is evident if you run ‘apachectl -S’ to check the vhosts configuration.

By: Chris V

Chris V — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:37:56 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial. My question is related to setting up the virtual host directory to run Cgi scripts written in Python. Should the python scripts live inside DocumentRoot? I know they can, but I read somewhere it is a bad idea to have python in DocumentRoot for security reason. The whole reason I have the virutal hosts for each site is so I can do my development for each site in its own directory and use the browser address point to each one. Is there a recommended way to set up a test environmet for each site I am working on?

By: kirby.mark

kirby.mark — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:33:11 +0000

Ross - of course it should have, thanks, I’ve updated that now! Glad you found the tutorial useful.

By: Ross Boardman

Ross Boardman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:20:12 +0000

Great article. Thanks for your efforts. This is by far the beest explanation I found after a few hours of searching for a concise set of instructions.

Should the line: “And comment out the include so it looks like this:”

Be ‘Uncomment’ as opposed to ‘comment out’?