Programming Notes

Setting Virtual domain with XAMPP for mac

Sudo Edit the file /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Refer to the examples in the file.

Insert Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf into /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf

Edit /etc/hosts and insert an entry for your doman that points to 127.0.0.1

Edit: For Lion users, add ::1 for every localhost domain that you have. This will speed things up a lot! source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841421/mac-osx-lion-dns-lookup-order

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

Have to create a localhost domain when you are using virtual domains.

This is the default:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs"
 ServerName localhost
 ErrorLog "logs/error_log"
 CustomLog "logs/access_log" common

 <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs">
 Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride all
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Installing xdebug with XAMPP on Mac

Follow instructions from http://xdebug.org/find-binary.php to get the correct version of xdebug.

However, compile it with 32bit else you will find yourself trapped with wrong architecture error.

./configure --enable-xdebug --with-php-config=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/php-config
 CFLAGS="-arch i386 $CFLAGS" CCFLAGS="-arch i386 $CCFLAGS"
 CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 $CXXFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 $LDFLAGS"

source: http://blog.laaz.org/tech/2010/08/27/xdebug-with-xampp-on-mac-os-x/