Comments on: A Smarter MAMP

By: Jason Hummel

Jason Hummel — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:48:53 +0000

One frustrating thing about using VirtualDocumentRoot is the DOCUMENT_ROOT env var will remain set to the main apache document root. This obviously causes problems when trying to reference files for a specific domain. After doing some searching I found this:

http://jbenner.net/blog/quick-tip-get-proper-document-root-when-using-mod-vhost-alias

Which completes the setup for me.

By: Aziz Light

Aziz Light — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:32:45 +0000

Thanks for this article. It didn’t work as expected unfotunately. When I go to {whatever}.dev it brings me to localhost instead of localhost/dev/{whatever}/public…

By: Aaron Nigelfeld

Aaron Nigelfeld — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:34:06 +0000

What about custom log locations? Do those work using the wildcards used in the VirtualDocumentRoot directive?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:26:17 +0000

I set this scheme up — thanks! Can you think of a change to this that would allow one-off departures? For example, is there a way to modify the user.conf file so that “special.dev” could go somewhere other than Sites/dev/special? Thanks again.

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By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:02:25 +0000

Editing the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist file isn’t necessary.

//To enable named sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist sudo launchctl start org.isc.named

//To disable named sudo launchctl stop org.isc.named sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist

The “-w” flag tells launchctl to save the disabled status to the plist file.

By: james

james — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:32:24 +0000

I recently lost my hard drive, and had to go through this configuration by hand again. And so I decided to put all this into a script as I did it.

I haven’t had a chance to test it yet on a real clean install, so feedback on the snipt below is welcome.

http://snipt.net/jrguitar21/mac-os-x-apache-development-setup

By: james

james — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:30:00 +0000

oops, sorry for the typo! Thanks for noting that.

Also, the link to the manual page in comment #30 appears to no longer work. Heres an updated link to resolver(5):

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/resolver.5.html

By: em hr

em hr — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:23:07 +0000

This is brilliant. I just wanted to note that Johns comment (#30) has a typo in it. The proper directory for ZeroConf/Bonjour to work is not /etc/resolve it is /etc/resolver

By: Jo Dassler

Jo Dassler — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:33:45 +0000

I just wandered here looking for stuff on mamp app.This stuff’s really deep.hopefully one day I can do stuff like this at the moment it gives me the shivers!Always thought somethings are better left in the cupboards(apache configs etc)but i guess you guys blaze paths for future web dev jedis.The article’s a wonderful read though.For me its still a case of i understand but i don’t.Cheers!One day…