OSX Mavericks Apache Added Virtualhost Loads Localhost instead - wordpress

Question

Been working on a locahost VHost setup for a WordPress Roots development environment with Bedrock including Composer, Capistrano and WP CLI using Homebrew on my OSX Mavericks Mac Mini all morning. I am using Homebrew's PHP 5.5 and MySQL 5.6.19 and OSX's Apache. Thought I had sort of understood Apache VirtualHost inner workings, but I am missing something.
I added img.local to /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost img.local
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost img.local
fe80::1%lo0 localhost img.local
and have this in /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:
NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin jasper#img.local
DocumentRoot "/Users/jasperfrumau/webdesign/img/web"
ServerName img.local
ServerAlias www.img.local
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/img.local-error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/img.local-access_log" common
<Directory "/Users/jasperfrumau/webdesign/img/web/">
Option FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow, deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I restarted the server using apachectl -k restart as root after I checked the config using apachectl -S . It said I was all good:
apachectl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
Syntax OK
When I load img.local in my browser the root localhost is loaded. So either my img.local is still bypassed because of a faulty vhosts file or there is something else in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf I need to change. What am I missing or doing wrong here?

Answer 1

In the end I realised the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf was loading the vhosts from /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf so I added one img.conf there and restarted the server. There were some errors in the file after all once it was read. This is the correct one:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin jasper#img.local
DocumentRoot "/Users/jasperfrumau/webdesign/img/web"
ServerName img.local
ServerAlias www.img.local
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/img.local-error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/img.local-access_log" common
<Directory "/Users/jasperfrumau/webdesign/img/web/">
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>