After I configured virtual host, my apache document root changed to the virtual host's document root, I just want to know why.
here is my httpd-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myapp.zend
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/php_zend_projects/myapp
<Directory /opt/lampp/htdocs/php_zend_projects/myapp/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all granted
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
After I restart apache server, localhost page changed to index of /opt/lampp/htdocs/php_zend_projects/myapp,
http://gwjyhs.com/t6/702/1556725814x2728329017.png
but it is supposed to be xampp's default page like this:
http://gwjyhs.com/t6/702/1556726269x2728278877.png
If you enable vhosts you have to add an entry that looks like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "F:/Dev/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
Note: change path to whatever is appropriate for you.
Restart webserver and it should work as before.
Reasoning behind this can be found in a comment on top of the httpd-vhosts.conf:
The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not match a ##ServerName or ##ServerAlias in any block.
That means when you type in localhost it fallbacks to your myapp.zend vhost because it is (probably) the first virtualhost section.
The issue is that when using MAMP for local development, the .htaccess file needs to differ in that the RewriteBase needs to specify the subdirectory for the specific site (as shown here on SO).
Is there a way to configure MAMP MAMP/conf/apachehttpd.conf so that each virtual site gets it's own "root"?
UPDATE
After getting a clue about Virtual Hosts:
Have updated /etc/hosts file to include:
127.0.0.1 ClientSite.localhost
Uncommented the line:
`#Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf`
in /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf.
There is a directory called ClientSite in /Users/myname/Sites/.
This is the /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf content:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host.example.com
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias *.localhost
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/myname/Sites/%0
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteLog "/Applications/MAMP/logs/rewrite.log"
<Directory /Users/myname/Sites>
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Restarted the MAMP servers (and even ran dscacheutil -flushcache).
When browser is pointed to ClientSite.localhost it returns a 404: The requested URL / was not found on this server.
so that each virtual site gets it's own "root"?
You need to use VirtualDocumentRoot.
This is how I am using this on my MAMP in my /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host.example.com
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias *.localhost
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/admin/htdocs/%0
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteLog "/Applications/MAMP/logs/rewrite.log"
<Directory /Users/admin/htdocs>
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Take note of VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/admin/htdocs/%0 directive. That makes each virtual site's root as:
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/admin/htdocs/localhost
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/admin/htdocs/dev.localhost
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/admin/htdocs/client2.localhost
etc.
Then simply create a directory within /Users/admin/htdocs/ for each site named as above, like:
dev.localhost
client2.localhost
Remove (or rename) any .htaccess files during the process - and once websites confirmed to be accessible via url like: http://client2.localhost, .htaccess files should behave as expected.
Also be sure that in the /etc/hosts file, there's an entry like:
127.0.0.1 client2.localhost
for each URL in question.
I'm trying to add a virtual host to xampp server but it seems I'm missing something because the second site does not show up, localhost is displayed instead. I don't know what is wrong with these settings:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/site1/public"
ServerName site1
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/site1/public">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I added the virtual host to the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost site1
Maybe try just adding
127.0.0.1 site1.local
to your hosts file (on windows C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
save file and make sure to restart xampp from the control panel
Give this a try:
In your httpd-vhosts.conf file:
<VirtualHost localhost>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost site1>
DocumentRoot "c:\xampp\htdocs\site1\public"
ServerName site1
<Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\site1\public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And in your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 site1
What I've done here:
Instead of using *:80, I'm using the name of the host. This gives it a more direct matching approach.
I've exchanged all forward slashed with backslashes. This doesn't really make a difference, but Windows uses backslashes - this is just a rule of thumb.
I have removed NameVirtualHost as, to my current knowledge, it does not make any difference, and thus depreciated. Future versions may recogise it as an unknown key.
Yeah, just use the solution from Mike and do not forget to uncomment line
#Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
within your httpd.conf file
I'm working with XAMPP on Mac OS X.
I'm trying to run a Symfony website properly for a client, and I really don't know Symfony (yet). I just want to install and launch it.
I've changed my /etc/hosts file this way:
127.0.0.1 www.mysite.local
And the httpd.conf file this way:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mysite.local
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web>
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /sf /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now, the site is working (yay!), but I can't access any more any of my other local sites because localhost is rendered as www.mysite.local.
Where am I wrong?
This worked for me!
To run projects like http://localhost/projectName:
<VirtualHost localhost:80>
ServerAdmin localhost
DocumentRoot path/to/htdocs/
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
To run projects like http://somewebsite.com locally:
<VirtualHost somewebsite.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/somewebsiteFolder
ServerName www.somewebsite.com
ServerAlias somewebsite.com
</VirtualHost>
The same for other websites:
<VirtualHost anothersite.local:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/anotherSiteFolder
ServerName www.anothersite.local
ServerAlias anothersite.com
</VirtualHost>
localhost will always redirect to 127.0.0.1. You can trick this by naming your other VirtualHost to other local loop-back address, such as 127.0.0.2. Make sure you also change the corresponding hosts file to implement this.
For example, my httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet"
ServerName intranet.dev
ServerAlias www.intranet.dev
ErrorLog "logs/intranet.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/intranet.dec-access.log" combined
<Directory "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
(Notice that in <VirtualHost> section I typed 127.0.0.2:80. It means that this block of VirtualHost will only affects requests to IP address 127.0.0.2 port 80, which is the default port for HTTP.
To route the name intranet.dev properly, my hosts entry line is like this:
127.0.0.2 intranet.dev
This way, it will prevent you from creating another VirtualHost block for localhost, which is unnecessary.
This is normal if you see it. Since it is the first virtual host entry, it will show local host.
Let’s say for example you didn't want that page to show. All you want to show is the "Apache, it works" page, so you would make a vhost entry before mysite.local as local host and point it to the "it works" page.
But this is normal. I had this problem before, so don't worry!
You may want to use this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "somepath\Apache2.2\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
as your first virtual host (place it before other virtual hosts).
I had the same issue of accessing localhost while working with virtualHost. I resolved it by adding the name in the virtualHost listen code like below:
In my hosts file, I have added the below code (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) -
127.0.0.1 main_live
And in my httpd.conf I have added the below code:
<VirtualHost main_live:80>
DocumentRoot H:/wamp/www/raj/main_live/
ServerName main_live
</VirtualHost>
That's it. It works, and I can use both localhost, phpmyadmin, as well as main_live (my virtual project) simultaneously.
Additional description for John Smith's answer from the official documentation. To understand why it is.
Main host goes away
If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server, you must
also create a block for the existing host. The
ServerName and DocumentRoot included in this virtual host should be
the same as the global ServerName and DocumentRoot. List this virtual
host first in the configuration file so that it will act as the
default host.
For example, to work properly with XAMPP, to prevent VirtualHost overriding the main host, add the follow lines into file httpd-vhosts.conf:
# Main host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
# Additional host
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Over directives there
</VirtualHost>
For someone doing everything described here and still can't access:
XAMPP with Apache 2.4:
In file httpd-vhost.conf:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/dir"
ServerName something.dev
<Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/dir">
Require all granted #apache v 2.4.4 uses just this
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
There isn't any need for a port, or an IP address here. Apache configures it on its own files. There isn't any need for NameVirtualHost *:80; it's deprecated. You can use it, but it doesn't make any difference.
Then to edit hosts, you must run Notepad as administrator (described below). If you were editing the file without doing this, you are editing a pseudo file, not the original (yes, it saves, etc., but it's not the real file)
In Windows:
Find the Notepad icon, right click, run as administrator, open file, go to C:/WINDOWS/system32/driver/etc/hosts, check "See all files", and open hosts.
If you were editing it before, probably you will see it's not the file you were previously editing when not running as administrator.
Then to check if Apache is reading your httpd-vhost.conf, go to folder xampFolder/apache/bin, Shift + right click, open a terminal command here, open XAMPP (as you usually do), start Apache, and then on the command line, type httpd -S. You will see a list of the virtual hosts. Just check if your something.dev is there.
According to this documentation: Name-based Virtual Host Support
You may be missing the following directive:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Just change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>.
Then the default DocumentRoot will serve for all domains or IP addresses that point to your server and specified VirtualHost will work.
It may be because your web folder (as mentioned "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web") is empty.
My suggestion is first to make your project and then work on making the virtual host.
I went with a similar situation. I was using an empty folder in the DocumentRoot in httpd-vhosts.confiz and I couldn't access my shahg101.com site.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). This is what worked for me:
Open up a terminal and cd to /etc/apache2/sites-available. There
you will find a file called 000-default.conf.
Copy that file: cp 000-default.conf example.local.conf
Open that new file (I use Nano; use what you are comfortable with).
You will see a lot of commented lines, which you can delete.
Change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost example.local:80>
Change the document root to reflect the location of your files.
Add the following line: ServerName example.local And if you need to, add this line: ServerAlias www.example.local
Save the file and restart Apache: service Apache2 restart
Open a browser and navigate to example.local. You should see your website.
For anyone using Windows and the Bitnami WAMP Stack Manager Tool this virtual host configuration should go into Bitnami\apache2\conf\bitnami\bitnami.conf
Note: Some settings in Directory section is not a must.
For example, my virtual host configuration for site.com would be as follows:
<VirtualHost site.com:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Bitnami/apache2/htdocs/site/docroot"
<Directory "C:/Bitnami/apache2/htdocs/site/docroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
<IfVersion < 2.3 >
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3 >
Require all granted
</IfVersion>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Remember that configuration for vhost as mentioned, by other friends, sagits's answer is needed.
I have problem with creating virtual host. I am using Windows 7 x64 Professional. In file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts I have only this lines:
127.0.0.1 myhost
127.0.0.1 www.myhost
And in file C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf I have this:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias www.localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Me/Dropbox/Project/public"
ServerName myhost
ServerAlias www.myhost
<Directory "C:/Users/Me/Dropbox/Project/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And of course I have restared my Apache server after adding this lines in those files.
Unfortunatly typing myhost or www.myhost in my browser redirect me to the myhost/xampp.
I have already search and I have found on google and also on stackoverflow description how to configure virtual hosts using xampp but how can I recognize I have done everything alright. I know that my problem isn't new but I didn't found working solution for me.
I have also recognized that typing localhost in my browser redirect me alsto localhost/xampp. I don't know whether these problems are linked in my case.
I had this same issue. Your first request is redirecting to the htdocs root directory. If you look at index.php in the htdocs directory, you can see very brief code that takes the incoming request and redirects it to the xampp directory.
I fixed it by fiddling with the httpd-vhosts.conf file. In your case, try making the following edits:
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost www.myhost>
DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Me\Dropbox\Project\public"
ServerName www.myhost
ServerAlias www.myhost
<Directory "C:\Users\Me\Dropbox\Project\public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I had a similar issue and found that I had to go to my Apache24 main httpd.conf file and uncomment around line 501 "Include conf/extra/httpd-vhost.conf"
I had never used that before and it was still #'ed out. Hope this helped anyone not finding other answers here. My Apache24 can now see my vhost file.
You need to enable name-based virtual hosting.
Near the top of the file in C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts
uncomment #NameVirtualHost *:80
i.e. from:
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
#NameVirtualHost *:80
To:
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
(Note the last line now is uncommented).
Worked like a charm for me. :)
try this
[ file : C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf ]
<VirtualHost basic.test:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/basic/public/"
ServerName basic.test
</VirtualHost>
[ file : C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ]
(open as admin)
127.0.0.1 basic.test
127.0.0.1 localhost
For me replacing this one <VirtualHost *:80> to this <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> working fine.