Setting Up VirtualHosts in XAMPP on Mac

Setup your hosts file first

If you don’t know how to edit your hosts file in mac, please visit my previous post here

Enable VirtualHosts

The first thing you’ll need to do is open the file/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf in your favourite text editor. Look for the following lines:

# Virtual hosts
#Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Uncomment the second line by removing the hash (#), so that Apache loads your custom VirtualHosts configuration file:

# Virtual hosts
Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Create your VirtualHosts

Open the file /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. Towards the bottom of the file you will see some example VirtualHosts, which you should comment out or delete.

At the bottom of the file, add ‘localhost’ as the default named VirtualHost:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot /Users/???/Documents/workspace/trunk/htdocs
   ServerName test.myserver.local
  <Directory "/Users/???/Documents/workspace/trunk/htdocs">
     AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>