Kevin Bridges

I like to develop against local virtual hosts when I work with Drupal. Here is the apache httpd.conf configuration that has served me the best so far. The first VirtualHost is the default .. .simply replicate the second VirtualHost entry and edit accordingly. A simple edit of /etc/hosts to enter the virtual host name that matches the virtual host entries in the httpd.conf and a quick reload by apache and you are good to go. I particularly enjoy the independent logging for each site.

This is likely a no-brainer for the server admins out there but I remember a time when this type of information would have been useful to me ... so here it is. This is not a production level configuration. Have suggestions for improving it?

httpd.conf

NameVirtualHost *
ServerName 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost *>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/
  <Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
  </Directory>
  <Directory /var/www/>
    Options All Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
  </Directory>
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
  LogLevel warn
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
  ServerSignature Off
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName mysite
  DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite/trunk/htdocs
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mysite_error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/mysite_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain localhost mysite mysite1 mysite2