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Jimmy Maurice
Jimmy Maurice
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Posted by Jimmy Maurice
Jimmy Maurice
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How to set up a Virtual host With MAMP on Yosemite ?

Hi everyone !

I'm trying to set up a virtual host to create a web application development environment on my computer. I need to do this because of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] issues.

My OS is Yosemite and i have already installed MAMP. I've already read many tutorials on the internet, but the tips don't seem to work with my Apache configuration. I add a line in my hosts file :

/etc/hosts

I added the last line : 127.0.0.1 monsite.dev

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##

255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

#localhost
::1         localhost 
127.0.0.1   localhost 
127.0.0.1   monsite.dev

then i made some modifications in my httpd.conf

/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf

I put this :

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *:8888>
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8888>
    DocumentRoot "/User/me/Sites/mysite"
    ServerName mysite.dev
</VirtualHost>

I miss something but i don't know what.

Does anybody know any good tutorial or tricks ? Thanks !