Harry Bailey » OS X 10.5

Virtual Hosts for PHP5 on OS X 10.5 Leopard

Harry — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:21:35 +0000

I just spent a good hour trying to work out why virtual hosts wasn’t working for me on my local machine. Turns out I needed to:

1) Enable virtual hosts by uncommenting the line

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

in httpd.conf

2) Add the line

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

to httpd.conf. I put it under the line

Listen 80

for now.

then…

3) Add my new hosts to the bottom of the httpd-vhosts.conf file:


	DocumentRoot /Volumes/Drive/Sites/mylocalsite
	ServerName mylocalsite.hjb
	ServerAlias *.mylocalsite.hjb

4) Add the sites as new lines to the /private/etc/hosts file as

127.0.0.1 mylocalsite.hjb

You can also do this with subdomains if you like. subdomain.mylocalsite.hjb

Entropy PHP Working With OSX 10.5

Harry — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:58:00 +0000

Thanks to davidje13 in this post on the entropy forum I have php with all the bells and whistles including gd, mb_ and zip working on a 10.5 macbook pro.

There are always issues setting up a new machine with a bullet proof development environment. Luckily I only have to do it a couple of times and year and entropy has always helped me out on the php site. MySQL tends to be pretty idiot proof if you pick a sensible package.

So although entropy hasn’t been updated recently due to the developers life commitments it is still working for the latest osx.

I just hope this continues in the future because I hate the idea of MAMP, WAMP or anything else that takes the environment aways from where it should be.