Need help setting localhost

Question

Help!

I'm trying to convince my Apache to point localhost to /Sites. What am I doing wrong?

httpd.conf settings

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

• DocumentRoot points to /Sites folder.
• Listen 80
• NameVirtualHost *

Buggy Result

1. 10.0.0.4 results with /Sites folder.
2. 127.0.0.1 does the same.
3. ERROR: http://localhost results with /private/etc/apache2/.../htdocs

Answer 1

I'm writing this shamefully, just for one reason: I found a thread with that question exactly, that ended with the user asking the questions saying "Got it working. Too ashamed to say what was the problem".

I nearly killed myself.

listen localhost:80

That's what I've been missing the whole time. There, for future generations. Amen.

Answer 2

What does localhost resolve to? It could legitimately be the IPv6 ::1, or anything in 127.0.0.0/8.

Answer 3

Without more info, I can't say exactly why this is happening. Apache is sensitive to the order in which virtual hosts are specified in its configuration. However, I'd use here. Unless you want other name-based virtual hosts on 127.0.0.1.

Also, it may be useful for you to use the following command to see what Apache thinks of your virtual host configuration:

apache2 -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

Depending on your particular system, the "apache2" command may be something else, like "httpd". If you're running Windows, I don't know if it will work at all.