Setting Localhost on Mac

mohammed · Jan 30, 2006

Hello Friends,

Just wanted to make this a as a quick Post.
I am trying to set my local folder as localhost, the way we set in windows.

I am a webmaster and bought a new apple iBook 12" and now i am trying view my websites locally as I would be working on it most of the time.
I guess there is not much complication in doing this, but still i was not able to do this.

Can anyone please reply to this post soon.

Thanks in advance.

White Eagle.

antizero · Jan 30, 2006

The good thing about Mac OS X is that Apache comes built in, you just have to enable it. Go to System preferences > Sharing > enable Personal Web Sharing (or ftp and whatever else you need).

mohammed · Jan 31, 2006

Thanks

antizero said:
The good thing about Mac OS X is that Apache comes built in, you just have to enable it. Go to System preferences > Sharing > enable Personal Web Sharing (or ftp and whatever else you need).

Thanks Antizero for the reply, I really appreciate.

One more last thing. I have seen those settings, http://202.168.2.8/~mohammed/ and this is what I see.

Now how should I give the Path of the local folder in our HDD?

Can you please make it much more elabotaive.

Thanks in Advance.

Mohammed

JackTheRipper · Feb 1, 2006

You have to do that in your httpd.conf I guess.

one thing, I can help you make it: 202.168.2.8/mohammed/ without the ~

example

Alias /mohammed/ "/path/to/mohammed's/folder/"

<Directory "/path/to/mohammed's/folder">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

mynameis · Feb 1, 2006

/Library/Webserver/Documents/ is the location of the root web directory.

ekologik · Sep 2, 2011

This post seems dead but I was looking for the same thing so I thought I'd post my solution. I eventually found the installs MAMP (native) and XAMPP (ported from Windows). This will allow you to develop more complex websites, supporting PHP, MySQL, etc. Both are free. I use XAMPP on Windows and am going to try MAMP for Mac. The basic web server does not support PHP. Your browser opens local PHP files as text files displaying the code, not an actual site, and for this reason I need to install either of the above-mentioned tools.

cupboy · Jun 25, 2013

Personal Web Sharing

antizero said:
The good thing about Mac OS X is that Apache comes built in, you just have to enable it. Go to System preferences > Sharing > enable Personal Web Sharing (or ftp and whatever else you need).

This response was from 2006. What is the current method for current Macbooks?

Raz0rEdge · Jun 25, 2013

The Web Sharing is gone from the later versions of OS X, so give MAMP a shot. It will set up Apache, MySQL and PHP for you and get things going..

Setting Localhost on Mac

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