The Absolute Least You Need to do to use Virtual Hosts on OS X Leopard

Enable Web Sharing in System Preferences > Sharing.

Edit these files:

(I keep these files in a TextMate project so I can get at them quickly and don’t have to remember which files I need.)

In httpd.conf, uncomment this line:

LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

In hosts, add your local sites in the format:

127.0.0.1   your-site-name.dev

In /etc/apache2/users/your-username.conf, add this line to the very top of the file:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Change None to All in this line (to allow for things like mod_rewrite):

AllowOverride All

Add FollowSymlinks to this line:

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks

Add new sites in the same file in this format:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName your-site-name.dev
   DocumentRoot "/Users/your-username/Sites/your-site-name/"
</VirtualHost>

Any time you make changes to any of these files, you’ll need to run this command:

sudo apachectl graceful

Check out this script for an easy way to add new sites (and feel free to fork it and adapt it to your uses).

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