: How to fake domain on OS X? I have added an entry to my hosts file which allows me to have localhost URLs like the following: http://mydomain.dev/~macuser/mydomain/index.php But I would

@Turnbaugh106

Editing MAC's host file

You will first need to edit your operating systems host file, on a mac this is a rather simple procedure that you should be able to follow with ease.


Open your terminal application (normally /Applications/Utilities/Applications.app or you can may even perfer to use your standard text editor.
In the terminal type nano /private/etc/hosts or open that file using your editor.
Add 192.168.1.1 example.com #Add a comment if you wish here to your hosts file, save it by doing control + o or save as within your editor.
Now that your operating system hosts file has the nessacary changes you most likely need to flush your DNS by doing dscacheutil -flushcache


Adding your virtual host

You then need to instruct your HTTPD server that you have a domain that you want to attach to the server, this is referred as a virtual host. In this example we look at Apache and setting a example domain (there is dozens of questions and answers on virtual hosts on Pro Webmasters already.

You can add the virtual hosts by going into your enabled sites and editing the configation file and adding something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites/Test/public"
<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/Test/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>


It's worth mentioning there are plently of tutorials on YourTube which will work you through setting up a LAMP.

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@Sims2060225

It's possible, yes. Either you can:


change your httpd to redirect your URL. In apache that's with mod rewrite
Create a reverse proxy that redirects incoming URLs and rewrites.

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