How To Setup Spesific Local Domain ( Virtual Hosts ) Using XAMPP on Windows
How To Setup Spesific Local Domain ( Virtual Hosts ) Using XAMPP on Windows
How To Setup Spesific Local Domain ( Virtual Hosts ) Using XAMPP on Windows
Here is some instruction how to setup a spesific domain name on Xampp using a Windows 7 machine. Routes might change contact us if you stuggle.
First make sure you have downloaded and installed Xampp
Take Notepad or your favourite IDE and go to C:/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Open this file and at the bottom of this file paste:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin my-new-domain
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/my-new-domain"
ServerName my-new-domain
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Now in your 'start' button, right click right on Notepad, select 'run as administrator', in Notepad go File->Open navigate to C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts open up hosts
Copy the line
127.0.0.1 localhost
paste and change to
127.0.0.1 my-new-domain
(add as many as you like or have defined in your apache vhost file)
Restart Apache
Voila ! Happy days
Published: 18th November 2016 byAdverts
