Creating Virtual Hosts ON Your MAC for MAMP

Open up the terminal.
1)    Web-Two:~ webtwo$  cd /etc <–change directory to the etc directory

2)    Web-Two:etc webtwo$ sudo nano hosts <–super user do (does not stay logged in),  editor, file=hosts

3)    Password: *******  <– enter password

4)   Editor opens up. You will see something like this…

#
# 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
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

5)  Type in the local IP followed by the name of the site you wish to make a virtual host for:
ie. 127.0.0.1 yoursite.you <– replace this with your name
You should do this for each site you wish to make a virtual host for , line by line.
Your /etc/hosts   file should now look more like this:
#
# 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
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost
127.0.0.1 yoursite.you

127.0.0.1 anothersite.you
127.0.0.1 yetanothersite.you

6)  Exit your editor, in this example I used, nano. Note: Be sure to SAVE the file.

7)  OK, now navigate to the file:    Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf  and open it in a text only editor ( like BBedit or Smultron or something )

8)  Scroll to the bottom of the httpd.conf file. For each site type in the following:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot “/Users/yourusername/Sites/site-folder-name”  <– replace with your own appropriate info
ServerName  localsite.you
<– replace with your own appropriate info
ServerAlias localsite.you <– replace with your own appropriate info
<Directory “/Applications/MAMP/htdocs”> <– do NOT change for MAMP
AllowOverride all  <– this allows the htacces file to work properly
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

9) Save the Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf    file and RESTART your MAMP server.

Now, when you type in the  site   www.localsite.you  followed by your MAMP port (usually 8888) like this:

http://www.localsite.you:8888 your site will come up!

Hope this helps!

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