Virtual hosts not working on MAMP

Question

I am running into virtual hosts setup issues on MAMP. Here is my vhosts config

 NameVirtualHost * <VirtualHost *> ServerName dev.local.com DocumentRoot “/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/local” </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs ServerName localhost </VirtualHost>

Here is my hosts file

 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 dev.local.com

now when visiting localhost and dev.local.com both are pointing to index of local directory. I tried various config setting in vhosts file but none is working. I am on MacBook Pro 10.10

Answer 1

I didn't find any of the answers useful, so if other suggestions don't work for you:

Consider that the virtual hosts need to be correctly enabled/included by uncommenting

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf in C:\\MAMP\\conf\\apache\\httpd.conf and NOT in C:\\MAMP\\bin\\apache\\conf or C:\\MAMP\\bin\\apache\\conf\\original .

There're multiple locations that have MAMP configuration, make sure to uncomment that line in the correctly located file .

Answer 2

When I first test virtual host (example.dev) I added two slightly different index.php files its directry and to localhost directory (/htdocs). My virtual host would redirect to locahost, I would know because the index.php would be the one in /htdocs. Similar to what user6166 said, I changed the code below to match the 8888 and it worked! I test example.dev:8888 and it works.

 NameVirtualHost *:8888

<VirtualHost *:8888>
    ServerName dev.local.com
    DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/local
    ServerAlias dev.local.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8888>
    DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

Then to remove 8888 change above back to 80 and MAMP preferences to:

Apache Port:80
Nginx Port:8888
mySQL Port:3306

Then inside httpd.conf change below to 80:

Listen 8888
ServerName localhost:8888

Hope that helps someone, it definely fixed my problem!

Answer 3

Changed the hosts file like this -

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName dev.local.com
    DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/local
    ServerAlias dev.local.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

Answer 4

Enable virtual host in the right httpd.conf Open MAMP > File > Edit template > Apache > httpd.conf

edit or add:

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

edit mamp httpd.conf

Answer 5

I had a similar issue with MAMP Pro 5 (after updating from version 4). One of my custom host with aliases was returning a 404 NOT FOUND error.

After a LONG troubleshoot, make sure to add the domain in the alias list.

MAMP 4

host:

test.co

alias:

sub.test.co

Becomes in MAMP 5:

host:

test.co

alias:

sub.test.co
test.co

Hope they'll get that fixed and that it helps someone!

Answer 6

Try to configure MAMP ports by this way:

1. MAMP
2. Preferences
3. Ports
4. Apache port: 80 Nginx port: 8888

I've had the same port values and after configurating it started working.

Answer 7

I'm not an apache expert. But I had the same problem. I think my DNS doesn't resolve my URL. When I ping exampl.dev everything looks fine, but when I enter example.dev in the browser I get an error. I always have to add http:// in front of the url.

Answer 8

Open the main Apache configuration file, httpd.conf , which is located at

Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf

and Remove the hash (pound) sign from the beginning of the line that begins with Include:

Virtual Hosts

Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf