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…
Sending (or piping) emails to a php script would allows a whole world of fun. I had a spare 30 minutes the other night so I sat down, read a few blog posts and forums and set up emails to pipe to a php script.
I was pulling my hair out this morning because although a css file I was loading was offering it’s contents immediately, the file didn’t complete loading to the browser for another 10+ seconds on each refresh.
I have seen loads of ways of looping though GET, POST and COOKIE and stripping slashes, but I finally think I found one I am happy with.
The benefits it offers include…
I’m sick of forgetting where to find my local development files so here is a quick breakdown. It includes hosts file, httpd.conf and php.ini