Comments on: Set up multiple virtual hosts on XAMPP for windows

By: Salman

Salman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:05:57 +0000

thanx alot….

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:18:24 +0000

Hey, Cheers for this post. It is quite helpful. I had this all working before with xampp, I have http://localhost working 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@localhost
DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
ServerName localhost

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

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

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

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
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

By: Dalyla

Dalyla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:30:58 +0000

I made these steps and my apache runs, but when I call myhost it brings xampp main page

DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin admin@localhost

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot C:/Development/Web/myhost
ServerName myhost

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

Any idea?

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By: Mathias

Mathias — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:36:49 +0000

Thanks for the feedback

By: Roderik

Roderik — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:50 +0000

Excellent, works like a charm now. Expected much more path problems but managed to set it up in minutes.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:42:03 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks – it worked exactly as I needed.

By: shetu

shetu — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:41:16 +0000

Thanks, Mate!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:57:54 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial Matthias! I’ve been wondering how to do this with XAMPP as I’ve got multiple web apps I’ve been working on. It works brilliantly!

By: svarog

svarog — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:13:28 +0000

Very well written. Tnx!

By: ja

ja — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:52:52 +0000

Thanks a lot for this great great tutorial, it’s working like a charm.. you made it seem so simple….

By: Basit

Basit — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:56:10 +0000

when you go to url localhost and it shows directory, that is correct. it happens because you dont have index.php file in the main root directory.

about clicking on url and it changes to localhost. make sure url is “/about.php” only in the html and not with “http://localhost/about.php”. it should not change the path.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:02:46 +0000

For some reason, being a ‘new day’ and fresh install and mod has got it working.

Question:
I go to http://mysite and it works. When I click on a link, the URL changes to http://localhost/about.php.

Also if I go to the URL “localhost”, it also shows me the “mysite” directory… is this correct?

Its working, but it seems there is a little glitch..

By: Basit

Basit — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:22:46 +0000

check my previous post. empty the index.php/html file and it will stop redirecting.. open it and remove all the lines and thats it

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:35:09 +0000

Nathan, what was your solution? I have the same issue.. I’ve even renamed the index.html and index.php files and it is still redirecting me to the xampp directory.

My code is exactly the same as Nathans… What did I do wrong?

By: Mathias

Mathias — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:02:54 +0000

The allmighty internet knows everything If your question was serious just contact me and I’ll try to explain it in a bit more depth

By: maikel

maikel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:34:36 +0000

how can internet know which host to take??

By: Ty

Ty — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:32:25 +0000

Great post! Thanks for putting this together. It’s not about the shorter URLs. It’s about redirects working correctly now. Sweet!

By: Arjan

Arjan — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:25:56 +0000

Hi Mathias, thanks for your comment. I found out my problem must be Drupal-specific. When I put a fresh Drupal install in the folder for that virtual host everything worked, so the problem I described must be with settings in the site’s setup (it’s a copy of a live site). The virtual server itself is working fine…

By: Mathias

Mathias — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:36:29 +0000

@Rhys as Adrjan wrote, you just need to set the right permissions in your MySQL databases. If you create a user which has only access to a specific database, he will not see any other DBs when loggin into phpMyAdmin. Example:

CREATE DATABASE myproject;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON myproject.* to myuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "secretpassword";

By: Mathias

Mathias — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:33:13 +0000

@Arjan strange, does the same thing happen when you just put there a PHP file which echoes something or calls phpinfo()? Are there any new entries in your logfiles (access.log, error.log) when you access the hosts? Do you have any services/programs running that might listen to port 80 (Skype is such a candidate)? PHP shouldn’t be the problem as it is loaded as Apache module and should be available throughout all virtual hosts.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:37:43 +0000

@Rhys: you can create different databases for each project. AFAIK the instance of phpMyAdmin is not related to a specific directory/project. Which databases you can see and manage when logged into phpMyAdmin depends on the privileges assigned to the user. So you could create a different user for each database.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:13:15 +0000

I have yet to utilize this system, but will be testing it out today. Seems like its just what I’m after.

Just a quick one, in your opinion what is the best method for MySQL databases in this situation? Will this allow a unique phpMyAdmin for each different directory I create / is this possible?

This will work great for keeping my projects apart, but I’m keen to keep databases seperate also.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:28:22 +0000

I have a virtual host setup like in your tutorial, but now I run into the following:
I have setup XAMPP, and added a virtual host for a project. Xampp lives in D:\xampp, and my DocumentRoot for the virtual host is in D:\www\projectA.
When I put a static html in the folder, http://projectA.local works fine, but when I put want to use this with a CMS (Drupal, so uses PHP, MySQL connection) in there, I just get a blank page…

Any clue what the reason for that is? Something to do with PHP?

By: magoo

magoo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:05:11 +0000

@dewasalju

What you want to do is to setup several VHOSTS. For Example your main Joomla app has the VHOST joomla1.dewasalju.dyndns.org.

Now just create another VHOST for joomla2. Incoming requests for that hostname will then be served with that respective DocumentRoot.