- This will work with MAMP 2.1.1 on OSX Mountain Lion, no guarantee otherwise.
- Virtual Hosts allow you to use readable URLs in your address bar to point to your local web projects instead of having to type "localhost:8888", etc.
- Install MAMP mamp.info
- Launch Mamp & click on Preferences
- Click the Ports tab and click the Set to default Apache and MySQL ports button.
- This will set your Apache Port to 80 and your MySQL Port to 3306
- Click the Apache tab to setup your Document Root