5 February 2016

Virtual Hosts in Windows under WAMP

Using nice domains instead of localhost

Do you want to call your localhost websites from a webbrowser using nice URLs like: mysite.dev or somethingelse.dev? Here's a way how to do this under Windows.
First edit your Apache's httpd.conf file. Look for "DocumentRoot" and then change into something like this ("e:/wamp/www" is the path to my sites):

DocumentRoot "e:/wamp/www/"
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "e:/wamp/www"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    ServerName mysite.dev
    DocumentRoot "e:/wamp/www/mysite-dev"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    ServerName somethingelse.dev
    DocumentRoot "e:/wamp/www/somethingelse"
</VirtualHost>

Then edit file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add these:

127.0.0.1	somethingelse.dev
127.0.0.1	mysite.dev

That's it!

Virtual Hosts in Windows under WAMP

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