In order to ease development of many PHP projects simultanious and let the PHP IDE's I am testing update the source automatically I use the following to create new virtual hosts:
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/mynewsite
Edit the new file to configure the new site, I am using ~/Development/project as the web folder.
sudo a2dissite default
sudo a2ensite mynewsite
sudo service apache2 reload
to activate the new site and reload apache2
