How to set the DOCUMENT_ROOT and site root in my local PHP dev setup?

Question

I\'m doing a job for a guy with a site online. It\'s an alien site to me, and I\'m slowly working through the strange code. I have MAMP locally and my http://localhost/ has many

Answer 1

What I would recommend is vhosts so you can serve up "alien site" locally without messing with your default web server.

• localhost -> your start page or whatever
• alien.localhost -> clients site, whatever path / doc root you want.
• x.localhost -> another site

In apaches global config file or included vhost.conf;

NameVirtualHost localhost:80
# the mysql tool's url

# and absolute path
DocumentRoot "/srv/www/phpMyAdmin/"


#Same for the Client Site

DocumentRoot "/path/to/desired/webroot/"

You can control permissons and set a overall global site by specifying the below first

in apache's global server config

DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs"
#
# Configure the DocumentRoot Properties
#
 
    Options All
    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    AllowOverride All
    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

#
# Configure Sub-Domain Properties. This prevents those nasty 403 errors
#
 
# mysql administration tool

    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

 
# a client web site built with CakePHP

    Options All
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all