Multi-site on a Mac

It applies because you need to edit httpd.comf file in the MAMP Apache setup, and also change your own etc/hosts file so that the url requests get directed correctly.

For example, I have one drupal install hosting multiple sites. My conf file in MAMP lists those virtual hosts (I use DEVexample.com). Then, I list that domain in the etc/hosts file so that when I type DEVexample.com in FireFox it goes to my local install of drupal/sites/default. I repeat this so that DEVexample2.com goes to drupal/sites/devexample2.com, and DEVexample3.com goes to drupal/sites/devexample3.com, and so on.

After you make changes to these files, you need to reboot MAMP for them to take effect.

Hope this helps.

Have you created the symbolic links using command-line (Terminal) yet? Don't know if this applies to your scenario, but that's one way to do the "mapping" of your subsites to the code base in a LAMP enviro. I was able to set up multisites in that manner (that is, www.example.com/drupal, www.example.com/drupal2 or www.example.com/drupal/subsite ) without any changes to httpdconf files.

I created a subdomain on the live server for local testing, that way it matches my host setup, much better this way.

If on local only, I would recommend using Mamp Pro, and use the mac default ports so you don't have :8888 issues on the live server.

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Come across this thread, probably too late for some but I'll jot down what I did here anyway.

I have been using a MacBook(OS-X 10.5) to run multi-sites and it is fairly straight forward once you know the procedure.

And here it is.

1. open up a terminal, type 'sudo vi /etc/apache2/http.conf' to setup virtual hosts.

Example, assume your Drupal instance is installed under /Users/AverageJoe/Sites/drupal. Add the following lines to create two virtual hosts:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /Users/AverageJoe/Sites/drupal
ServerName drupal1.localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /Users/AverageJoe/Sites/drupal
ServerName drupal2.localhost
</VirtualHost>

2. in the terminal, type 'sudo vi /etc/hosts' to update the host list.
Using previous example, add the following lines;

127.0.0.1     drupal1.localhost
127.0.0.1     drupal2.localhost

3. Create databases and setup Drupal site folders. The folder names should be "drupal1.localhost" and "drupal2.localhost" respectively. And update settings.php accordingly. If this step is unclear to you, please refer to Drupal site on site installation information.

4. Restart Apache server. Simply toggle checkbox OFF and then ON in System Preferences->Sharing->Web Sharing will do the trick.

5. You should now be able to see both sites with these URLs on your browser.

http://drupal1.localhost
http://drupal2.localhost

a have one time the same problems with my mac and drupal installation - but couldnt solve them...

Hi Kevin,

Could you let me know what I need to do to make all the virtual sites available to the Internet? I am using MAMP Pro and my default site (first site) has a public DNS name with a static public IP for it. This IP is also the IP address of my web server. I can access the first site no problem from the Internet but can only access the other virtual sites locally on the web server.

Can I use one public IP to host multiple virtual sites and make them accessible from the Internet?

Thanks,

TNguyen