Setting up a Virtualhost for your site

To set up a Virtualhost for Elefant development on your desktop, you can use the following steps:

Mac OS X

1. Create a folder for the site in your Sites folder. Let's call it mytestsite.

2. Edit the file /etc/hosts and add this line:

127.0.0.1 www.mytestsite.lo

Note: .lo represents a local site in this example. It's a simple convention that helps you quickly see that you're on your local development machine.

3. Edit your Apache configuration (/etc/apache2/users/me.conf where me is your username) and add:

NameVirtualHost www.mytestsite.lo

<VirtualHost www.mytestsite.lo>
    DocumentRoot /Users/me/Sites/mytestsite
    ServerName www.mytestsite.lo
</VirtualHost>

4. Restart Apache

sudo apachectl restart

You should now be able to go to http://www.mytestsite.lo/ and see an empty Apache site directory if all went well.