I finally enabled Virtual Hosting on my Mac. It’s great. I get to develop different sites with every single one of them using root-relative paths. No more searching and replacing relative paths with absolute server paths before FTP’ing files. Pretty cool. Here are some good tutorials:
Virtual Hosts on OS X – this one worked the best for me.
Enabling Virtual Hosts on MacOS X – tried this guy’s method but since I already had existing folders for my sites, I didn’t realize I had to append the “.site” suffix to the folders’ names as suggested (I settled for .dev eventually).
Virtual Hosting on Mac OS X – this guy developed an app that supposedly makes the process a cinch to do. I ran into some problems when I tried it though.