note to self:
to set up a virtual host named viho for local web development testing on OSX El Capitan (and probably earlier):
- define an alias name in
/etc/hosts
:127.0.0.1 localhost viho ::1 localhost viho
- setup the virtual host configuration file
/etc/apache2/other/viho.conf
:<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "/path/to/where/the/files/are" ServerName viho </VirtualHost>
browse to http://viho/ and enjoy.