Open multiple virtual hosts by local IP address

Question

I'm using Apache, PHP (MAMP) in OSX environment, and Symfony framework for develpment. Symfony requires the use of Virtual Host for development locally, so I've added these lines on my /etc/apache2/hosts file:

127.0.0.1   frontenda.dev
127.0.0.1   frontendb.dev

Then at my /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd.vhosts.conf , I've added these lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName frontenda.dev
  DocumentRoot /Users/geo/Sites/frontenda/www/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName frontendb.dev
  DocumentRoot /Users/geo/Sites/frontendb/www/
</VirtualHost>

I can open those folders from my browser by these urls http://frontenda.dev or http://frontendb.dev . My question is what should I do (if this is even possible) to use IP address instead of frontenda.dev or frontendb.dev ? What I mean with that is, let say my machine ip 192.168.1.144 , can I do 192.168.1.144/frontenda or even assigning different port number for different folder?

Answer 1

You can use Alias to map different paths to different directories

Alias /frontenda /Users/geo/Sites/frontenda/www

Alias /frontendb /Users/geo/Sites/frontendb/www

Answer 2

I've had a better answer. I get it working using xip.io from 37signals http://xip.io/ . You can do like this:

        10.0.0.1.xip.io   resolves to   10.0.0.1
    www.10.0.0.1.xip.io   resolves to   10.0.0.1
 mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io   resolves to   10.0.0.1
foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io   resolves to   10.0.0.1