I have been trying to figure this out all day after upgrading to the latest PHP via macports. Although now I have a strange problem in that if I visit http://localhost - this works correct displaying a list of websites in my sites /Users/foo/Sites http://127.0.0.1 - this displays the default "It Works"
I havw I have created a vhost file with the following
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Users/foo/Sites"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias 127.0.0.1
ServerAdmin webmaster@foo.local
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /Users/foo/Sites>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /opt/local/apache2/logs/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /opt/local/apache2/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@foo.local
DocumentRoot "/Users/foo/Sites/snow"
ServerName snow.local
ServerAlias www.snow.local
ErrorLog "/opt/local/apache2/logs/snow-error_log"
CustomLog "/opt/local/apache2/logs/snow-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
My host file contains
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
127.0.0.1 snow.local
Found the answer to the problem. This was caused due to having the 'web sharing' settings turned on.