Trying to install MAMP on new machine and having problems

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 16:39, Ali A Samii wrote:

> I'm trying to install MacPorts MAMP on a new machine and I'm encountering a problem.
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> I want to have the document root be located on an external drive.
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> I have edited httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, and /etc/hosts
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> When I restart apache, I get no errors.
> When I go to http://localhost/ I get the standard "It Works" message.
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> When I point my browser to a local site that I have defined in hosts and httpd-vhosts.conf, it works.
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> However, when I try to access http://localhost/phpinfo.php or http://localhost/phpmyadmin I get 404 Errors.
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> I defined a Virtual Host for phpmyadxmin using the same syntax so I could just type pma and the browser would point to phpmyadmin, and instead of a 404 error, I get the "It Work's" message.
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> I'm baffled.
> 
> Can someone help me? If you need me to send you my httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, and /etc/hosts please let me know.

Yes, you should send your conf files and also tell us where the files are actually located on your hard drive.