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Archive for January, 2008

Apache setup for local hacking

I do most of my local web development under my userdir (/~tvon), but I don’t like dealing with relative URLs (and some webapps prefer to think they live in your document root). So, I fake it.

Edit /etc/hosts to give localhost some extra aliases:

127.0.0.1       localhost local1 local2 local3 local4 local5

Then tweak apache config to add a few VirtualHosts (in this case in my home dir /Users/tvon):

<virtualhost *>
    ServerName local1
    DocumentRoot /Users/tvon/Sites/local1
</virtualhost>
<virtualhost *>
    ServerName local2
    DocumentRoot /Users/tvon/Sites/local2
</virtualhost>
<virtualhost *>
    ServerName local3
    DocumentRoot /Users/tvon/Sites/local3
</virtualhost>
<virtualhost *>
    ServerName local4
    DocumentRoot /Users/tvon/Sites/local4
</virtualhost>

Now when I want to work on a site, say example.com (assuming it lives in the example.com directory under /Users/tvon/Sites) I symlink it to an available local alias, e.g. ln -s example.com local1 and I can access it as a root site at http://local1/.

Not very fancy, but it makes my life a little easier.

Written by Tom

January 10th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Posted in Geekery, Web Development

Election design

Election design:


campaignlogos-obama.gif

When, oh when will some politician break the mold and hire a real graphic designer? I’d really love to see what someone like Kit Hinrichs could do

(Via Monoscope.)

I suspect the real problem is that the people in charge meddle with the designs too much. Granted, a good designer can deal with meddlers…

Written by Tom

January 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Posted in Ramblings