Recently I required to update my development environment such that I can quickly setup virtual hosts, without needing to update the httpd.conf file everytime. It turns out that Apache supports a directive called VirtualDocumentRoot which allows you the map your host directories based on the domain name. I wanted to setup domains like project-name.user-name.devserver.name, hence [...]
As you can tell I got myself a new macbook and its pretty much ritualistic to install apache/php5 on it for me. I agree it comes with both of them pre-installed but really I just like to do it for the easy of configuration. I have written earlier how I compiled everything on Leopard in [...]
I have been moving my development to Linux lately and had the first real struggle getting the rewrite stuff working on Apache. Problem wasn’t that I didn’t know how to do it, (BTW usually i would prefer to have a self compiled version of Apache as I would know what’s in it) but that the [...]