Setting up Virtual Hosts with XAMPP running on Windows XP

Nice tutorial, but I have a question... So what if you're using subdomains?

Like this? for abc.tildemark.com

DocumentRoot "E:\www\tildemark.com\abc"
ServerName abc.tildemark.com
ServerAlias abc.tildemark.com

CustomLog "E:\www\abc.tildemark.com\tildemark.com-access_log" combined
ErrorLog "E:\www\abc.tildemark.com\tildemark.com-error_log"

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

lemme know...

Thanks
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Current config:
Configuration about the current demo OS
VMware Workstation 5.5.3 build-43685, Windows XP SP3 installed.
with Internet Explorer 7
written by: fred-eric [at] lafaille [dot] ca
on: March 2 2009

video 2: customizing xampp to use it with virtual folder.
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before customizing xampp make sure you stop apache service
1- create virtualhost folder in web folder
c:\web\virtualhost

2- create domain for virtual folder, here test.
c:\web\virtualfolder\ilovephp

3- Edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts add this line:
127.0.0.1 ilovephp

4- Save and close

5- open c:\web\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf (\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf)

6- uncomment line 19
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

7- Add default htdocs folder for localhost

N.B: By doing this you lose access to your default htdocs directory.
To fix this, you have to create an extra vhost with ServerName localhost
which points to your htdocs directory.

ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot C:/web/xampp/htdocs
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

8- Add new test domain virtualhost

ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot C:/web/virtualfolder/ilovephp
ServerName ilovephp
ServerAlias ilovephp

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

9- start Apache with xampp control

10- open the test domain with browser
http://ilovephp

That's it your done.....

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hi Alfredo Sanchez

I uses your artical and configuration for domain, when i change to httpd-vhosts.conf to way you said not my Xampp is not running Busy port 80

any clue

I am new i would be greatful if you can help me to setup my own server, i have domain registed

hi Alfredo Sanchez

I uses your artical and configuration for domain, when i change to httpd-vhosts.conf to way you said not my Xampp is not running Busy port 80

any clue

I am new i would be greatful if you can help me to setup my own server, i have domain registed

Hi Alfredo,

I have some weird problem..
I already set the host like this

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mxyzplk.com
127.0.0.1 www.mxyzplk.com

NameVirtualHost *

DocumentRoot "D:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName localhost

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all



DocumentRoot "D:\xampp\htdocs\magento"
ServerName www.mxyzplk.com
ServerAlias www.mxyzplk.com

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

the problem is when I try to access my site on localhost, it goes to xampp...
its automatically goes to http://www.mxyzplk.com/xampp not to the path that I point...

I hope you can help..
regards.

Great tutorial! It worked perfectly!

Hey, Cheers for this post. It is helpful, however similar prob to Alfredo. I had this all working before with xampp, I have http://localhost with two virtual hosts http://myclub.dev and http://mycharity.dev. It seems to be broken now with the config below, all query urls (localhost, mycharity and myclub) go to ‘C:/xampp/htdocs/mycharity/dev/’ directory, which is the mycharity.dev vhost dir. If I rename all virtual hosts to *:80 advised in your post instead of the below, all are redirected to ‘C:/xampp/htdocs’ being localhost directory. *:80 used to work when I had this working.

NameVirtualHost *:80

ServerAdmin webmaster
DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
ServerName localhost

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ServerAdmin webmaster
DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/mycharity/dev/
ServerName mycharity.dev

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ServerAdmin webmaster
DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/myClub/dev/web_root/
ServerName myclub.dev

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

My hosts file is also valid at ‘C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts’.

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mycharity.dev
127.0.0.1 myclub.dev

Any help is greatly appreciated.

/Paul

If when you set this up, you find that you are constantly redirected to http://yurdomain/xampp then you probably have 1 of two problems happening, maybe both:

1) Verify that you have stopped and restarted the Apache server. In later versions of xampp, Apache is running as a service. Make sure that it is *really* stopped and restarted.

2) *Clear the browser cache*. Don't just stop and restart the browser! I can't say this often enough or loud enough. This had us waisting the best part of a day, due to Firefox caching a previous url fetch.

How about setting up virtual host on windows 7? It failed when I try to add host at the hosts file.
My hosts configuration :
127.0.0.1 localhost dipasar
The result when I tried to ping is :
Pinging 127.8.0.149 [127.8.0.149] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=128

Thanks for your tutorial... now I´m trying to make it work... but I´ll find a way.

Thanks for this fantastic tutorial.
Went from first attempt on Windows 7.

Thanks for this fantastic tutorial.
Went from first attempt on Windows 7.