Question

Coding for PHP on Mac OSX Lion, using the following within the httpd.conf file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /Users/user/Sites/wordpress
    ServerName wordpress.local
    <Directory “/Users/user/Sites/wordpress">
        AllowOverride All
        Options All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and in the hosts file:

127.0.0.1 wordpress.local

This all works fine. What I want to be able to do is allow that first section to accept some sort of wildcard so that I can add several pages to the hosts file, but not have to keep messing with the httpd.conf file. I used to be able to use %1 and %0 instead of the directory name to get this working, but there now seems to be a problem with that.

All help much appreciated.

Cheers,
David.

Answer 1

The following blogpost by Rob Allen should help, I think : Automatic Apache vhosts

The first part of the article is about mod_vhost_alias, which will allow you to use wildcards for ServerAlias, a VirtualDocumentRoot directive it adds, and Directory.