How to set up hosts file for local environment?

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Published on 2010-01-31T15:20:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 15:03 UTC
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I'm trying to create subdomains on my localhost and am way out of my territory... I'm running MAMP on my Mac OS X and I thought/think I had/have to do the following:

(Assuming I want to create me.localhost.com and you.localhost.com)

(1) Edit /private/etc/hosts

Right now, it looks like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

So, do I just make it:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       me.localhost.com
127.0.0.1       you.localhost.com
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

(2) I'm assuming I don't need to mess with DNS at all because it's local? So, the hosts file should suffice?

(3) And then, I need to edit my httpd.conf file to include virtual hosts? I tried this, but it's not picking it up...

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/me.localhost.com"
ServerName me.localhost.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/you.localhost.com"
ServerName you.localhost.com
</VirtualHost>

Not sure if I'm way off-base here... Help is greatly appreciated!

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