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I have setup a virtualhost for MacOSX Apache installation.

These are my steps:

  • edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf removing comment from:

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

  • edit /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, added:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.local
DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites/Test/public"
<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/Test/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

  • edit /private/etc/hosts added

    127.0.0.1 test.local

  • Restart Apache

But the VirtualHost does not work. To further isolate the problem, I check the same configuration with MAMP and the virtual host worked right, so the configuration files should be fine.

What can be wrong?

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  • I can't spot any obvious mistakes in your config file, but you might like to try VirtualHostX for Mac OSX. It greatly simplifies creating Apache virtual hosts.
    – Nick
    Jun 29, 2011 at 16:40
  • @Nick Excellent recommendation, but I'm trying to learn the thing from the ground up so I prefer for now stick to manual editing. I will anyway check the app for the future.
    – David Casillas
    Jun 29, 2011 at 19:49

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Maybe your config has wrong IP?

127.0.0.7 test.local

This one should work just fine:

127.0.0.1 test.local

Additionally you may have incorrect <VirtualHost> directives formatting (unless this is happened when you inserted text here). Instead of

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks 
Includes AllowOverride All

should be

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
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  • Excuse me, I have corrected the errors in the post. My configuration were correct, but I add some mistakes when formating the text of the post.
    – David Casillas
    Jun 29, 2011 at 16:21
  • @David This config looks absolutely fine to me. When you say "does not work" -- what do you mean exactly/how it does not work?
    – LazyOne
    Jun 29, 2011 at 16:42
  • I'll point the browser to test.local and he cannot find the address. I have created the folders Test/public and a test index.html file inside public. May be a permisions issue?, although as I have pointed the same configuration worked under MAMP instalation.
    – David Casillas
    Jun 29, 2011 at 19:44
  • @David I'm not a Mac user so cannot really advice much here. Config is fine .. what error log say, anything at all?
    – LazyOne
    Jun 29, 2011 at 20:18
  • There should be some other error becouse localhost was also falling to load. I reset the conf files to original state and localhost now works. I have a diferent problem now, but I will start a new post. Thanks.
    – David Casillas
    Jun 30, 2011 at 8:04

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