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#Virtualhostx installation tutorial how to

This brings up the Pico text editor in your window.

Since this is a protected file on your computer that you don’t want just anyone editing, sudo lets you edit it, provided you type in your system password and hit enter. We’re using the UNIX command sudo, which means ‘super user do’. You can try it if you want now but it shouldn’t work

Right now you will not be able to see this file because we haven’t setup anything yet, but after we’re done you’ll be able to get to it by putting into your browser. Each directory in here will be it’s own site, so inside this ‘test’ directory you should have an index.php file with some HTML in it so we can test to make sure everything works. For now we’re going to add a directory called test. Any websites you make that you want to preview locally using PHP should go into this directory.Inside your user directory is your Sites/ directory (NOTE: the name of this directory on spanish language computers is ‘Web’ in the finder, but on the system the name is still ‘Sites’, so for the rest of the tutorial when you see ‘Sites’ that’s good for spanish language systems as well and it’s case sensitive ).

Go into your user’s folder in your hard drive, we’ll be using your user name later, so try to remember it.

Still with us? If so, get a cold drink and get comfortable because the one time setup steps can take a bit of time if you’re new to this stuff.

#Virtualhostx installation tutorial how to

If you aren’t very interested in learning about how to configure Apache and you’d rather it just worked, you may want to check out MAMP and VirtualHostX. Use this tutorial at your own risk: We’re not in any way responsible for any errors in this text, or any damage that may result from misunderstanding the tutorial. This does not however mean we guarantee it’ll work for you. This tutorial walks you through making changes to your system’s default installation of Apache, it’s been tested on a few computers running OSX 10.3, 10.4, & 10.5 and everything has worked great.