Create VirtualHost in your MAMP.

Creating virtualhost on MAMP is very easy. Suppose you want to make a virtualhost named

. Just follow the steps below…

1. Open your hosts file located in

   1	/etc/hosts

   . To open a file either you can use your favorite text editor or use nano in command line.

   1	sudo nano /etc/hosts

   . Now add the following line

   1	127.0.0.1 local.myweb.com

   (Save and exit. If you are using nano then press ctrl+x, press y then press enter).

2. Create a file named

   1	vhosts.conf

   in

   1	/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/vhosts.conf

   and then open it.

3. Copy and paste following lines in it.

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   <VirtualHost *:80>   ServerName local.myweb.com   ServerAlias local.myweb.com   DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myweb   ErrorLog /Applications/MAMP/logs/myweb.log.txt   DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5   <Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myweb/>     Options -Indexes +IncludesNOEXEC +FollowSymLinks     allow from all     AllowOverride All   </Directory> </VirtualHost>

4. Enable your virtualhost by adding below line in

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

   at the bottom of the file.

   1 2	NameVirtualHost *:80 Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/vhosts.conf

5. Restart your apache server and test it. Open your web browser and type local.myweb.com you will see
   

Tada you are done! Enjoy and correct me if I’m wrong

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