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Reminder to self: how to set up a virtual host for localhost webdevelopment on OS X with MAMP

1. DNS setup: add an entry for the local domain name in /etc/hosts, e.g.
   

   127.0.0.1     foo.localhost

   and flush DNS cache with
   

   dscacheutil -flushcache

2. Apache config (/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf): add a virtual host entry like
   

   <VirtualHost *>
     ServerName foo.localhost
     DocumentRoot /Users/eddywally/Sites/foo/localhost-dev/drupal
   </VirtualHost>

   and restart webserver, e.g. with
   

   /Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2/bin/apachectl restart

3. Connect to http://foo.localhost:8888 (don't forget the nonstandard port number, unless you configured MAMP to use standard port 80).

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