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

By: Renátó S.

Renátó S. — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:14:00 +0000

Great writing, thanks!

But I have a problem. Can anybody tell me how to set up dinamic subdomains? I mean: If I want to use sub-a.host.com and sub-b.host.com, and once I want to use sub-c.host.com one in a time, and i dont’t want to modify the hosts file everytime, is there any way to set something?

I tried with the following:
hosts:
127.0.0.1      localhost
127.0.0.1      host.com
127.0.0.1      *.host.com

http-vhosts.conf:

    ServerAdmin me@mail.com
    DocumentRoot D:/VAIO/xampp/htdocs/probe
    ServerName host.com

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

    ServerAdmin me@mail.com
    DocumentRoot D:/VAIO/xampp/htdocs/probe
    ServerName host.com
    ServerAlias *.host.com


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

I using Win7 and XAMPP.

If in the hosts file i wrote a new line like:
127.0.0.1 sub-a.host.com
It works.

But how can I make it automatically?

ps: I’m sorry for my english, i’m just learning it.

By: kjetil_runescape

kjetil_runescape — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:27:00 +0000

Great:)

Btw it has probably been answered already but might as well repeat (cba reading every comment).

If you reach the xampp homepage even if you picked a different directory, chances are that you’ve put the virtual host localhost first in the order. Simply swap your virtual directories so it precedes the localhost declaration.

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By: Simon Dolding

Simon Dolding — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:06:00 +0000

Ridiculously simple but incredibly useful! Thanks.

By: Ilya Bezdelev

Ilya Bezdelev — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:57:00 +0000

Thanks! I have been renaming my htdocs back and forth when I wanted to work on different projects.

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By: KannanNadarajan

KannanNadarajan — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Excellent, Thanks

By: Jeferson dos Santos

Jeferson dos Santos — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:15:00 +0000

Thanks

By: Mathias

Mathias — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:18:00 +0000

The easiest way to debug virtual hosts is to create a file named index.php in the document root of the virtual host, which is calling the phpinfo function. E.g.:

This will show you all php settings including the current document root. Basically the configuration has nothing to do with PHP as virtual hosts are purely managed by apache itself – the phpinfo just shows you some useful info.Regards,Mathias

By: PaulaLA

PaulaLA — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:06:00 +0000

I hope this doesn’t sound terribly dumb, but I’m wondering, what does “success” looks like when the virtual hosting has been set up correctly?

I don’t have a full-blown php site or index page to put into my c:/vhost folder, so I renamed an html file with a .php extension, and tried to set up a virtual host for that — assuming that when I typed the path into the browser — http://peacockhill/ — it would open the page. But it’s just taking me to the XAMPP for Windows “welcome” page.

When I adjust some of the settings I get an “Ooops! File not found” message. So I’m wondering if the configuration that brings me to the XAMPP page is correct, and the reason the index file is not displaying is it’s not a “real” .php site.

Any insight much appreciated!

PaulaLA

By: Davanti

Davanti — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:33:00 +0000

none of the below solutions worked for me, but they helped! thanks!.
my server always defaults to /program files/xampp/htdocs
so when i remove the index files from that directory xampp still works, but for my sites i get a directory listing of …/htdocs which shows
…/htdocs/xampp and …/htdocs/mywebsite
and can then browse to the desired subfolder.
so why is the server is not serving out of ….htdocs/mywebsite
the example VirtualHost in the httpd-vhosts.conf file shows DocumentRoot as .”../htdocs/dummy-host2.localhost ” is that a server name or a directory??
Peace and good luck.
D

By: Angelin Sirbu

Angelin Sirbu — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:04:00 +0000

For those of you who didn’t manage to setup multiple virtual hosts, i found the solution.

In your windows hosts file add:

# My XAMPP development hosts
127.0.0.1 example1.dev
127.0.0.1 http://www.example1.dev

127.0.0.1 example2.dev
127.0.0.1 http://www.example2.dev

In your httpd-vhosts.conf (notice that i’ve put 127.0.0.1 instead of *):

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/example1/
ServerName http://www.example1.dev
ServerAlias *.example1.dev

DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/example2/
ServerName http://www.example2.dev
ServerAlias *.example2.dev

You can add as many virtual hosts as you like.

By: Angelin Sirbu

Angelin Sirbu — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:04:00 +0000

For those of you who didn’t manage to setup multiple virtual hosts, i found the solution.

In your windows hosts file add:

# My XAMPP development hosts
127.0.0.1 example1.dev
127.0.0.1 http://www.example1.dev

127.0.0.1 example2.dev
127.0.0.1 http://www.example2.dev

In your httpd-vhosts.conf (notice that i’ve put 127.0.0.1 instead of *):

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/example1/
ServerName http://www.example1.dev
ServerAlias *.example1.dev

DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/example2/
ServerName http://www.example2.dev
ServerAlias *.example2.dev

You can add as many virtual hosts as you like.

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:52:18 +0000

THANK YOU!

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:52:00 +0000

THANK YOU!

By: Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:03:20 +0000

I finally found a solution that is ridiculously easy. By default, this line is commented out:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Uncomment the line and everything will start working how you want it to.

By: Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:03:00 +0000

I finally found a solution that is ridiculously easy. By default, this line is commented out:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Uncomment the line and everything will start working how you want it to.

By: Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:54:31 +0000

I’m having the same problem that Paul and Sun were having where both of my virtual hosts were being redirected to the first one. I moved the ServerName to be the first attribute and it didn’t change anything. Does anyone have a solution?

By: Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:54:00 +0000

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:00:04 +0000

Yes! Thank you so much. This solved my troubles with relative links!

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Yes! Thank you so much. This solved my troubles with relative links!

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:54:38 +0000

I was having the same problem as Nathan. Everything was set up correctly but my site http://test kept redirecting to http://test/xampp and giving an error.

Finally I remembered that right at the start I had copied across the index.php file from xampp into my test folder as ‘a quick and easy way to test to see if it worked’ — without checking out the contents of that index.php file. Doh!!! Replaced file and all is well.

Posting this here just in case someone else does the same thing and can save them a few hours.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:54:00 +0000

I was having the same problem as Nathan. Everything was set up correctly but my site http://test kept redirecting to http://test/xampp and giving an error.

Posting this here just in case someone else does the same thing and can save them a few hours.

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:00:32 +0000

Brilliant quick summary. Worked first time and does exactly what I needed.

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Brilliant quick summary. Worked first time and does exactly what I needed.

By: James

James — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:27:51 +0000

Thanks for the quick reference.