Setting up Virtual Host in MAMP

This tutorial will help you to set up a Virtual Host using MAMP without using console. Follow these steps:

1. Open the file /etc/hosts. You will be prompted to enter your login password.

2. Navigate to line line containing 127.0.0.1 localhost and enter the following in the next new line:

   127.0.0.1   example.dev
   

3. Save the file and exit. Now you will be redirected to 127.0.0.1 when you enter example.dev in your browser. You can do this for any number of addresses.

4. Now open the file /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf and navigate to the lines containing:

   # Virtual hosts
   # Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
   

5. Remove the hash(#) before the line that starts with Include so that it looks like:

   # Virtual hosts
   Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
   

6. Open the file at /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. You can see examples of how to define Virtual Hosts. You can either edit this or add one of your own. Add this configuration to define your virtual host:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
       ServerName localhost
   </VirtualHost>
   
   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot "/path/to/site"
       ServerName example.dev
   </VirtualHost>
   

7. Close the file and restart the servers to get into action.

8. Now if you enter the URL http://example.dev in your browser, you will be served the files at path /path/to/site you had entered in the configuration. You can add more Virtual Hosts as and when needed.

Virtual Hosts helps in making workflow easier.