And half an hour after sending this message, I've solved the problem. For future reference or the curious, the correct configuration for this situation is: Site path on server: ~Username/newsite.dev/ Default page name: index.php Local site root: ~/Sites/newsite.dev Preview server URL: http://localhost/
Anyway, I'm glad to have this working. BBEdit gets more useful the more effort you put into understanding its advanced features. gr. On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gabriel Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using OS X 10.6.4 and BBEdit 9.5.1. > > I use OS X's built-in Apache server to test and develop PHP sites on > my local machine. My setup goes like this: > -- create a new folder in ~/Sites called newsite.dev > -- edit my .hosts file to redirect requests for http://newsite.dev to > localhost > -- edit /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf to send those requests to > ~/Sites/newsite.dev > -- restart Apache in Sharing Preferences. > > All this works fine. When I type 'http://newsite.dev' in a browser's > location bar, I see my site, with PHP running properly. > > Now I want to preview this site using BBEdit's Preview feature. But I > can't figure out how to configure the web site in BBEdit Preferences > ... no matter how I set the site path and preview server, it always > displays, "The requested URL /some/path/to/index.php was not found on > this server." > > The 'HTML Web Sites' section of the BBEdit manual says, "if you want > to use virtual domains, need to enable PHP, etc., you will need to > modify the Apache config file for your system. Such configurations are > not directly supported through the HTML Web Site preferences." I don't > know if this means that there's no way to do what I'm trying to do, or > if there is some way to do it outside the HTML Web Site preferences, > or if that warning just applies to running PHP itself and doesn't > apply to previewing in BBEdit. > > If there's no way to do what I'm trying to do, then I'm unclear on the > purpose of the 'Use Local Preview Server' option. > > (In general, the HTML Web Sites feature is one of the few parts of > BBEdit that seems to me poorly documented.) > > Any advice or information would be much appreciated. > > gr. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
