Apache development config on OS X (again)

Answer 1

Can you try:

ServerName 172.16.3.111
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site1.local
    ServerAlias site1
    ServerAlias www.site1.local
    DocumentRoot /Users/kevin/AppsDev/site1/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

you should be able to get by with the following basics:

NameVirtualHost 172.16.3.111

<VirtualHost site1.local>
  ServerName site1.local
  ServerAlias www.site1.local
  DocumentRoot /Users/kevin/AppsDev/site1/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost site2.local>
  ServerName site2.local
  ServerAlias www.site2.local
  DocumentRoot /Users/kevin/AppsDev/site2/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

# may be helpful to provide a default container
# basically your default web root, doesn't have to be ~/Sites
<VirtualHost *>
  DocumentRoot /Users/kevin/AppsDev
</VirtualHost>

# a directory container should restrict access appropriately
<Directory /Users/kevin/Appsdev>
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

your /etc/hosts file then:

172.16.3.111 site1.local
172.16.3.111 www.site1.local
172.16.3.111 site2.local
172.16.3.111 www.site1.local

a few things to watch for:

• apache's default config on mac os x includes a number of extra files (such as /etc/apache2/users/kevin.conf, may want to make sure nothing in there is interfering with your main config
• of course check for any relevant firewall/proxy issues on your LAN
• it's sometimes helpful to establish a telnet connection to see exactly what's going on

example:

$ telnet site1.local 80
Connected to 172.16.3.111.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: site1.local

this will provide the raw HTTP connection in case there's some additional information perhaps your browser is hiding.