first, edit your web server’s httpd.conf (for example, /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf) and add a VirtualHost with some name other than “localhost” (we do this because windows may reserve localhost for some of its services).
NameVirtualHost yourhostname:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourhostname
DocumentRoot “/your/directory/here”
</VirtualHost>
edit leopard’s “hosts” file:
sudo nano -w /etc/hosts
and append your new host name to the existing line for localhost:
127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
now, […]