This great tip was submitted by one of our listeners, Richard M. He is one of the board admins over at http://www.forum.cify.eu/. Thanks for the tip Richard!
Use (assuming you are in the finder) Go->go to folder->type:”/etc/httpd/”->open httpd.conf (doesn’t matter in witch text editor, but I prefer Smultron)
somewhere around line 1066
you’ll find this:
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>
we’re intrested in the second part,
edit that (or, copy it and then edit the copy) to something like this:
<VirtualHost http://mymac.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mymac.com
DocumentRoot /users/richard/sites/somesite/
ServerName mymac.com
ErrorLog logs/mymac.com-error.log
CustomLog logs/mymac.com-access.log common
</VirtualHost>
and using http://mymac.com/ you get the files in /users/richard/sites/somesite/
but: the daemon account has to have access to that folder, or it will only give a internal server error
p.s. though may won’t show the folder /etc/ it does exist, as it’s a UNIX system folder,
and /etc/httpd/ is were Apache keeps it’s settings
also, to use Virtual hosts only on one account
go to /etc/httpd/users/<username>/httpd.conf and put the Virtual host instructions in there
Sometimes when you download large files, the host will provide an MD5 checksum, which is a hash of the raw file data that you can use to compare and see if any of the data was corrupted, changed, or lost during the download process.
For whatever reason, from time to time Mac OS X will unmount a CD or DVD, but not physically eject it. The drive can freeze up and then no matter how long you hold down the eject key, nothing happens. Before you go grab the needle-nose pliers and a screwdriver, try this simple tip.
Sometimes Mac OS X goes a little crazy and won’t let you eject an external drive, even after it’s no longer in use by any application. If you can’t unmount a disk even after all open applications are closed, and don’t want to restart your machine, this little Terminal trick is for you.
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