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Save Time (and code) Using Virtual Hosts For Local OS X Web Development With mod_rewrite

UPDATE: This tutorial was written for OS X 10.4 and parts of it are no longer necessary with OS X 10.5. See this post for details. Using a few built-in tools in OS X, I’ve found a great way to develop sites as Virtual Hosts on Apache. If you are a web developer working on a [ READ MORE ]

Show Hidden Files in OS X’s Finder

In web development on the Apache web server, a common configuration file used in nearly every site we build is the .htaccess file. But in OS X, you can’t see it in the Finder – hidden files (files which start with a dot “.”) are unavailable unless you use the Unix command line. I did [ READ MORE ]

Tell Your iPhone to Stop Opening iPhoto!

  • September 13th, 2007
  • Posted in OS X

Every time I plugged in my iPhone, it had this nasty habit of opening iPhoto for me. Not because it wanted to drive me to drink, but because iPhoto is set to open any time a digital camera is connected to my computer – which, technically, an iPhone is. To stop this behavior, you won’t find [ READ MORE ]

Enable mod_rewrite on OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Tiger has introduced a new super-confusion level to the stock configuration of Apache. In addition to the httpd.conf file in the /etc/httpd directory, there’s now a new users directory as well. That directory holds unique config files for each user of the machine. So, if you were to enable mod_rewrite or AllowOverrides in httpd.conf, you [ READ MORE ]