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Setup Vhost xampp for mac

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Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on on macOS Sierra and OSX  is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running – get your web development up and running first including Apache, PHP and MySQL on macOS following this   AMP stack guide here  if required. The process of setting up Virtual Hosts is done easier in the Terminal either using  nano  or  vi  with  sudo  or as a  root  user,    or you can you a GUI visual editor like  Text Wrangler  which allows access to the  /private/etc  directory by clicking ‘Show Everything” in the open dialog box. Allow the vhosts configuration from the Apache configuration file httpd.conf Open the httpd.conf sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Search for ‘ vhosts ‘ and uncomment the include line # Virtual hosts Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf Also allow another module to run by uncommenting: LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so Edit the vhosts.conf f