Virtual Host Configuration for WordPress on my Mac

I mainly post this so I don’t forget, but someone else might find it useful. I always forget how to configuration the virtual host on my local Apache so that WordPress will run right. (I don’t like to use MAMP – don’t ask why). Note that ‘jbasdf’ is my username. Use your username in place of ‘jbasdf’.

See this article to find out more about setting up virtual hosts on your local machine. The file ‘/etc/apache/users/jbasdf.conf’ is automatically included in your apache config because of this line in httpd.conf:

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

Edit /etc/apache/users/jbasdf.conf:

    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all


    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

NameVirtualHost *:80

  DocumentRoot /Users/jbasdf/projects/wordpress_sites/justinball
  ServerName justinball.dev
  ServerAlias www.justinball.dev
  ErrorLog /Users/jbasdf/projects/wordpress_sites/justinball/logs/error_log
  CustomLog /Users/jbasdf/projects/wordpress_sites/justinball/logs/access_log common

Also note that if you do this you’ll want to change ‘etc/hosts’ so that your Mac will send requests to localhost:

127.0.0.1 justinball.dev
127.0.0.1 www.justinball.dev

On a side note here’s some great information on getting php to work on your Mac.

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