Acquia Dev Desktop – Sharing your local site

If you’re developing a Drupal site locally, using Acquia Dev Desktop 2, and you need to allow your co-workers to see it, you’ll need to make the following change to your vhosts.conf (located in devdesktop\apache\conf\vhosts.conf)

<VirtualHost *:8443>
  ServerName test.dev.dd
  SSLEngine on
  DocumentRoot "/Users/test/Sites/devdesktop/test-dev/docroot"
  <IfModule fcgid_module>
    FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC "/Applications/DevDesktop/php5_5/bin"
    FcgidWrapper "\"/Applications/DevDesktop/php5_5/bin/php-cgi\""
  </IfModule>
  <Directory "/Users/test/Sites/devdesktop/test-dev/docroot">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

ServerName test.dev.dd

SSLEngine on

DocumentRoot "/Users/test/Sites/devdesktop/test-dev/docroot"

FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC "/Applications/DevDesktop/php5_5/bin"

FcgidWrapper "\"/Applications/DevDesktop/php5_5/bin/php-cgi\""

</IfModule>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

AllowOverride All

Require local

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Replace “Require local” with “Require all granted”, then stop and restart Apache/MySQL from within Dev Desktop.