MAMP PRO (macOS) Documentation

Settings > Hosts > Apache

Apache options can be set for the selected virtual host in the table. These options are security relevant! More information about configuring your Apache Server can be found at the Apache website.

• Options for <Directory> directive

  • Indexes
    Activates or deactivates “directory browsing”. If there is no index.html, index.php, etc. in the document root, the content of the folder is displayed when this option is enabled. Without this option, nothing will be displayed or an error message will appear.

  • Includes
    Allows the use of Server Side Includes (SSI).

  • FollowSymLinks
    Allows the use of symbolic links as reference to documents in other directories. This is an elegant feature if you would like references to objects that are outside of the directory tree (e.g. protocol files of the web server), but know you want to avoid the hiding of objects through the URL tree.

  • SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Restricted version of “FollowSymLinks”. Allows reference to objects via symbolic links only if the owner matches.

  • Exec-CGI
    Permit CGI execution.

  • Multiviews
    Allows the use or disabling of dynamic documents depending on the language.

• Additional parameters for <Directory> directive

  • Directory Index
    Determine which file Apache should serve if no filename is given in an address. By default it is either index.html or index.php.

• Additional Parameters for <VirtualHost> directive
  These directives go directly to the httpd.conf file.

  • Server admin
    The email address Apache will send error messages to.

• httpd.conf file

  You cannot directly edit your httpd.conf file in MAMP PRO. You need to make custom configurations through your httpd.conf template file. More information on how to configure your httpd template file can be found in our Menu > File section.

  MAMP PRO and httpd.conf, php.ini, my.cnf

• Additional Apache Server Configuration

  The configuration files in the “/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/” directory can be included to add extra features or to modify the default configuration of the server. Uncomment, then edit, any of the following configuration files in your httpd.conf template file to make customizations.

  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
    Configuration information on httpd-mpm.conf can be found here.
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
    Configuration information on httpd-mpm.conf can be found here.
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-languages.conf
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-info.conf
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-manual.conf
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-dav.conf
  • Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-default.conf