Comments on: Save Time (and code) Using Virtual Hosts For Local OS X Web Development With mod_rewrite http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development-with-mod_rewrite/ A Web Developer's Blog Highlighting Open Source and OS X Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Barrett http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development-with-mod_rewrite/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Michael Barrett Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:06:41 +0000 http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development/#comment-1059 I do a similar thing, but I use arbitrarily defined port numbers instead of named hosts. This allows me to have a second machine on my network (or a virtual machine like Windows running under parallels) to view my dev site with root relative links intact. First I add the following to my user.conf file to preserve good old standard port 80: #protect localhost/default Listen 80 Then I add a configuration like this for each of my dev sites #dev site config Listen 1200 DocumentRoot /Users/me/Sites/devsite/ Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AllowOverride all Allow from all Order allow,deny Then I can use "localhost:1200 to access my site on my own computer, or I can browse the site by IP address plus port number on a neighboring computer. this allows for easy testing on multiple browsers and platforms w/o uploading to a live development server on the internets. I do a similar thing, but I use arbitrarily defined port numbers instead of named hosts. This allows me to have a second machine on my network (or a virtual machine like Windows running under parallels) to view my dev site with root relative links intact.

First I add the following to my user.conf file to preserve good old standard port 80:

#protect localhost/default
Listen 80

Then I add a configuration like this for each of my dev sites

#dev site config
Listen 1200

DocumentRoot /Users/me/Sites/devsite/

Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny

Then I can use “localhost:1200 to access my site on my own computer, or I can browse the site by IP address plus port number on a neighboring computer.

this allows for easy testing on multiple browsers and platforms w/o uploading to a live development server on the internets.

]]> By: Michael http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development-with-mod_rewrite/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Michael Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:55:01 +0000 http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development/#comment-950 Thanks Roder - I wasn't aware of the shortcuts in Firefox. That will come in handy. But the real purpose of this is to simplify code and make it easier to migrate a site to a live server after the site is ready to launch - shortening the url you need to type in is just a handy by-product of the whole process. Thanks! Thanks Roder – I wasn’t aware of the shortcuts in Firefox. That will come in handy. But the real purpose of this is to simplify code and make it easier to migrate a site to a live server after the site is ready to launch – shortening the url you need to type in is just a handy by-product of the whole process.

Thanks!

]]> By: Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard) | michaelkrol.com http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development-with-mod_rewrite/comment-page-1/#comment-949 Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard) | michaelkrol.com Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:46:27 +0000 http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development/#comment-949 [...] the release of Leopard last Friday, it appears the bulk of my previous tutorials are now taken care of out of the box. mod_rewrite is enabled by default, and a decent (but not [...] [...] the release of Leopard last Friday, it appears the bulk of my previous tutorials are now taken care of out of the box. mod_rewrite is enabled by default, and a decent (but not [...]

]]> By: Roder http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development-with-mod_rewrite/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Roder Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:46:33 +0000 http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development/#comment-884 If you use firefox, you can just create bookmarks using shortcuts. So if you wanted to use admin, just bookmark the long url and save the shortcut as 'admin'.. then all you have to do is type admin. For example, to get to my root localhost - i just type l If you use firefox, you can just create bookmarks using shortcuts. So if you wanted to use admin, just bookmark the long url and save the shortcut as ‘admin’.. then all you have to do is type admin.

For example, to get to my root localhost – i just type l

]]> By: davor http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development-with-mod_rewrite/comment-page-1/#comment-691 davor Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:42:29 +0000 http://michaelkrol.com/2007/10/04/save-time-and-code-using-virtual-hosts-for-local-os-x-web-development/#comment-691 awesome tutorial!! great work!! thanx!! awesome tutorial!! great work!! thanx!!

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