OS X El Capitan Virtual host setup

Sometimes we setup dev environment on locally and use ‘virtual host’, check steps below for OS X El Capitan virtual host setup.

Prerequisites: working Apache server

OS X El capitan Virtual host setup steps-

Go to terminal login to root user if you are not root,

Step 1 : Like ubuntu, we need to add domain to hosts file, open hosts file by cmd and your domain entry

sudo vi /etc/hosts

and add new line ex. 127.0.0.1 abcd.com

Step 2 : Create new virtual host

sudo vi /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Check the end of file, you can modify existing once or new simpl one like below

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/amol/Sites/abcd"
ServerName abcd.com
</VirtualHost>

Make sure DocumentRoot is correct, try copying from “pwd”

Step 3 : Enable virtual hosts by including
/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file into /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file, its allready included you need uncomment a single line.

Step 3 : Finally restart a server and test your newly created host.

sudo apachectl restart