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This line tells the operating system to send requests to dev.tutorial to 127.0.0.1. You’ll want to
replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the server you are using for this tutorial (assuming it’s
not LAMP/MAMP on your local machine) and dev.tutorial with whatever you want the virtual
host to be.
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You’ll need to repeat this process for each virtual host you add. If your application has (for example)
three different domains pointing to it; then you will need to set three of these up to test them locally.
Creating Apache 2 Virtual Hosts
Apache2 virtual host entries are created by manipulating the configuration files usually located in
/etc/apache2/sites-available/. You can edit the default file, and add the entries to it, or you can
create new files.
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If you choose to create new files for your virtual host entries, then you will need to symlink them
to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/* where ***** matches the name of the files you create in the sitesavailable
folder.
The expanded syntax of virtual host entries can be quite a bit to type/maintain; so I have a few go-to
lines I usually use:
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2 DocumentRoot /var/www/site1
3 ServerName dev.site1
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This was extracted from /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.
The ServerName property can be anything you like — it’s the address you will use in your browser.
The DocumentRoot property needs to point to an existing folder in the filesystem of the web server
machine.