macintosh/server roots/multiple sites

[phoenixisland]

I have my php and apache running ok on my mac and i simply want to be able to change the root of the server to different sites in my sites directory because urls for images,css,js files aren't resolving. I'm just looking for a simple way to do this without going into virtual hosting. I'm not even sure if virtual hosting is the way it's usually handled.

also i'm pretty sure when i started my web sharing on the default setup [localhost...] resloved to my main user account now i see 2 index pages. localhost points to the default apache indel.html which I have no idea where it lives on my mac and the apple default index.html for my machine is only accessable now by [phoenix.local...] (phoenix being my user name) so I don't know what I did to mess this up?

any help would be greatly appreciated. my appologies if this has been covered. I've been searching through the posts without success.

thanks
phoenix

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, phoenixisland.

If you have different sites, then Virtual Hosts are the way to go. They allow you to have different DocumentRoot directives for each container. The Apache [httpd.apache.org] Documentation for your server version will have a link to Virtual Hosts that will be a good starting point.