From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

Greetings,
I deal with a number of websites. Traditionally I fire up my server and
develop to it from another machine. Lately, I wanted to use my Mac G4
Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.4.6) as both server and development machine. I
started reading that the G4 has Apache installed and that all I needed
to do is configure the "httpd.conf" file so that I could develop
several sites simultaneously.

My first attempt failed. Personal Web Sharing would hang and never
start and I had to restore the httpd.conf file.

My questions are:
How do I modify the Apache httpd.conf file properly to support more
than one website?
And
What other modifications might I need to do to my G4 (such as the
NetInfo Manager) in order for it to support multiple websites?

I have read several articles, but apparently I didn't follow them
closely enough.

Can anyone explain what I need to do or point me to a few set-up
articles that are layperson friendly?

Here is what I did previously...

File: httpd.conf

Original Lines:

#NameVirtualHost *:80
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>

Modified to:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/dummy-host.example.com
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/personal
ServerName local.mynametest.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/personalsecure
ServerName local.mynamesecure.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

This modification resulted in Apache (Personal Web Service) not
starting up properly.

Thank you,

TPK

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In article <1145738143.548261.235430@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"TPK" <tim.kern@comcast.net> wrote:

Greetings,
I deal with a number of websites. Traditionally I fire up my server and develop to it from another machine. Lately, I wanted to use my Mac G4 Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.4.6) as both server and development machine. I
started reading that the G4 has Apache installed and that all I needed
to do is configure the "httpd.conf" file so that I could develop
several sites simultaneously.

My first attempt failed. Personal Web Sharing would hang and never
start and I had to restore the httpd.conf file.

My questions are:
How do I modify the Apache httpd.conf file properly to support more
than one website?
And
What other modifications might I need to do to my G4 (such as the
NetInfo Manager) in order for it to support multiple websites?

I have read several articles, but apparently I didn't follow them
closely enough.

Can anyone explain what I need to do or point me to a few set-up
articles that are layperson friendly?

Here is what I did previously...

File: httpd.conf

Original Lines:

#NameVirtualHost *:80
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>

Modified to:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/dummy-host.example.com
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/personal
ServerName local.mynametest.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/personalsecure
ServerName local.mynamesecure.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

This modification resulted in Apache (Personal Web Service) not
starting up properly.

Thank you,

TPK

The interface to change these files is a text editor and the O'Reilly
book Apache, the Definitive Guide (http://www.ora.com). If you're going
to be configuring Apache on your system, I'd pick up a copy of that book.

You'll have to configure your network to assign separate IP addresses to
the various sites hosted on your system. I did this from the Network
System Preference. Use the last option on the drop-down menu--Network
Port Configurations. I just created a separate configuration and IP
address for each site.

Use that IP address in the /etc/httpd/users/<dev account shortname>.conf Don't change the httpd.conf for anything but the modules you enable or
if you want circulating log files (I built cronolog for this http://cronolog.org/). You can setup separate accounts for the web
sites or just create separate DocumentRoot directories in your
development account.

--
DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...



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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

In article <1145738143.548261.235430@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"TPK" <tim.kern@comcast.net> wrote:

Greetings,
I deal with a number of websites. Traditionally I fire up my server and develop to it from another machine. Lately, I wanted to use my Mac G4 Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.4.6) as both server and development machine. I
started reading that the G4 has Apache installed and that all I needed
to do is configure the "httpd.conf" file so that I could develop
several sites simultaneously.

My first attempt failed. Personal Web Sharing would hang and never
start and I had to restore the httpd.conf file.

My questions are:
How do I modify the Apache httpd.conf file properly to support more
than one website?

For what it's worth, you don't actually have a Mac OS X problem, you
have an Apache problem. You might get more useful responses in a forum
more focused on Apache.

I don't know much about configuring virtual hosts, but a couple of
things would be useful for general-purpose Apache work:

1. Anytime anything goes wrong, check the log files at /var/log/httpd/, because Apache's error messages are often quite useful.

2. When editing the configuration file, check on your edits using
"apachectl configtest", which will help pinpoint any errors you may have
made.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X.
Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more.
See http://www.atomicbird.com/
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