Setting up virtual hosts on Apache

Hello everyone,
I've a question which I'm sure the experienced among you will know the
answer to immediately.

I'm attempting to develop several sites on my laptop, with the assets
for each in a different folder. I want to make each of these folders a
separate webserver document root, so that I can test each of my sites
independently.

I imagine that virtual hosts are the answer, here.

But I'm having a rather interesting time trying to set up said virtual
hosts. The story so far runs like this:

in my httpd.conf file,

(a) I've enabled name-based virtual hosting with this line:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

- hopefully the loopback IP is OK, here. I am only doing personal
testing after all ... I don't have any requirement to actually webshare
with anyone else, or anything

(b) I also added these vhost descriptions:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName dev0
DocumentRoot /Users/clive/Documents/Business/webDev/virtualSites/dev0
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost dev1>
ServerName dev1
DocumentRoot /Users/clive/Documents/Business/webDev/virtualSites/dev1
</VirtualHost>

(c) I added the corresponding directories dev0 and dev1 at the
locations indicated, and placed a trivial index.html file within each
one:

dev0/index.html displays the message "reached dev0";
dev0/index.html displays the message "reached dev1

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So what happens? Well, I have success, partly. If I type "localhost"
into the address bar and hit return, I am rewarded with

reached dev0

This is correct, I think; the first vhost description begins with
<VirtualHost *>, and is meant to be used when no hostname is specified
in the http request, if I understand the Apache docs.

But how do I access the dev1 virtual host? I cannot for the life of me
seem to figure this out. Apparently, there is a "host:" attribute to
supply in the 'header' - whatever that is.

do i specify the host in the URL in some way? If so, then how is this
done? I have tried just about every combination I can think of!

Any advice, or pointers to some online documentation would be warmly
welcomed at this point, ladies and gents

Kind regards,


Clive Green

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 > (a) I've enabled name-based virtual hosting with this line:
Just making some changes in between to make life easy

 > NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
useCanonicalName off
listen 80
NameVirtualHost *

 > (b) I also added these vhost descriptions:
 >
 > <VirtualHost *>
 > ServerName dev0
You're displeasing the *nix-(wo)men
ServerName 111.domain.tld

 > DocumentRoot /Users/clive/Documents/Business/webDev/virtualSites/dev0
 > </VirtualHost>
 >
 > <VirtualHost dev1>
 > ServerName dev1
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName 222.domain.tld

 > DocumentRoot /Users/clive/Documents/Business/webDev/virtualSites/dev1
 > </VirtualHost>

 > But how do I access the dev1 virtual host? I cannot for the life of me
 > seem to figure this out. Apparently, there is a "host:" attribute to
 > supply in the 'header' - whatever that is.
Right ... whatever it is, it is mandatory and comes with almost no cost if
you use the poor man's DNS the file hosts' somewhere in a folder named
'etc'. Open that file and add these entries
127.0.0.1 111.domain.tld
127.0.0.1 222.domain.tld

Browse your way to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://222.domain.tld" target="_blank">http://222.domain.tld</a>

Do the same on any other machine in your local network, replacing
localhost's address with the LAN-IP of the one running Apache and brows from
there, all thanks to the asterics in NameVirtualhost

If you have scripts baking cookies, let it make them domain cookies. It
makes your script works for all servers, 'www.domain.tld' just as well as
for '111.domain.tld' or 'xyz.domain.tld'.


 > Any advice, or pointers to some online documentation
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost</a>


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