Setting up Virtual Hosts on a Snow Leopard Development Server

Hi Everybody,
I'm losing hair over this - I thought it would be simple!
I have set up a Mac Mini Server running SLS and would like to host multiple websites for development on the internal network. I require the websites to be stored anywhere on the server, not just in Library/WebServer/Documents/. Ideally, I would like to access them by example.com/mynewsite so I don't have to mess around with DNS.
Currently I'm setting up websites in the Server Admin Web panel but it just doesn't work. I've noticed the error log keeps looking for files located in the Library/WebServer/Documents/ folder even though I have specified a different folder.
What Am I missing? Does anybody know of a tutorial / guide to point out potential issues when setting up virtual hosts? I have checked Apple's guide but it doesn't really help me. Any pointers would be much appreciated!
Cheers

Sites is likely failing here because Sites is based on the DNS and on the HEAD command within the http stream; if the DNS does not match, you won't get to the host, and if the HEAD command doesn't match the entry in the site, then you'll either get the * wildcard or (if no *) you won't be transferred to the target Site.
Check the web server logs, as a start.
If you want to see how this stuff works at the protocol level, you could telnet to port 80 and toss a http 1.1 GET / command and see what you get back for a page.
Per [rfc2616|http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616], this sequence looks like this:
+telnet www.example.com 80+
then:
+GET / HTTP/1.1+
+host: www.example.com+
followed by two presses of the return key, and where www.example.com is your target Site (virtual host) name.
Alternatives to using DNS and virtual hosts are port-based hosting (which is easy), and you can also use IP addresses to establish virtual hosts. The former is set up via the Sites stuff, with various other ports being used for the web servers. Ugly, but easy. The IP-based approach can get ugly fast, too.
If you get DNS going and aliases added, and all this goes away in a puff of greasy orange smoke.

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