: Using Apache's rewrite module to set up local host names for development I have several websites on my development machine under Apache's htdocs folder. Apache Directory root is htdocs, but I

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I have several websites on my development machine under Apache's htdocs folder. Apache Directory root is htdocs, but I want to be able to access each different site there by individual domain names. For example, I have

htdocs/dev_site_com
htdocs/cre_site_com


I have added these lines to my hosts file

127.0.0.1 dev.site.localhost

127.0.0.1 cre.site.localhost


Now I want to add an .htaccess file in the htdocs to redirect dev.site.localhost request to htdocs/dev_site_com or 127.0.0.1/dev_site_com

I want to do this so that all of my relative URLs in my site work locally. If I link to a stylesheet in the dev_site_com site using the path /css/style.css, it will work in production, but not in development, because the root is htdocs and not htdocs/dev_site_com

I've never been good with mod_rewrite.. but this is what I have so far..

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^dev.site.localhost
RewriteRule %1 [L]

</IfModule>


and nothing is happening

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