I know this has been asked hundreds of times and I made sure I read all of them, but still I cannot get this working. So as the title suggests, I cannot get a vhost running from MAMP/OSX. Here's a list of things I tried so far:
Created configuration in /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/abcd/public"
ServerName abcd.dev
ServerAlias www.abcd.dev
</VirtualHost>
Removed comment from the line
Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
in the file /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf
Finally this is how my /etc/hosts file looks
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
127.0.0.1 abcd.dev
Restarted MAMP and here are the test results:
http://localhost/ - Shows Index of and then /abcd
http://127.0.0.1/ - Shows Index of and then /abcd
abcd.dev - Unable to connect, Firefox was unable to connect to the server abcd.dev
Surprisingly
ping abcd.dev - Returns response 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms
ping 127.0.0.1 and ping localhost also returns same response.
I had docker running on my computer, I thought that was messing it up, so I stopped in completely, but the problem continues.
Any help is appreciated.
you have specified "www." prefix in your vhosts file, but tried to access is through abcd.dev (without the www.)
abcd.dev is now officially a public domain. So basically my browser is trying to locate the site "out there".
Instead let's use something like abcd.local or abcd.loc
Hope this helps someone stuck in .dev labyrinth.
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I had an issue last night where MAMP just refused to connect to the Apache server(unsure whether this has something to do with my issue). I decided to uninstall and reinstall. I was able to connect once again, however, when I added my virtual host to the httpd-vhosts.conf file in my MAMP folder, and navigate to it I get brought to a 'It works!' page. (I also realised I get this page by typing localhost even without running MAMP?)
Below are some of my files
httpd.conf(in MAMP)
//Uncommented line below
# Virtual hosts
Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
httpd.conf(in MAMP)
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName portfolio
DocumentRoot '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/portfolio'
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs'
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
/private/etc/hosts
##
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the lookback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
127.0.0.1 portfolio
This is a copy paste of what I had before which worked 100%, unsure what happened between MAMP stopping working, the uninstall and reinstall. Is there an issue with apache somehow overwriting something? Really out of my depth here with this issue. Is there somewhere else I should be looking to debug this?
For reference, localhost:8888 & localhost:8888/portfolio work as expected, localhost/ & portfolio/ don't, brings me to the 'It works!' page. Before this issue I was able to do 'localhost/phpmyadmin' to bring me to phpmyadmin and 'localhost/portfolio' to bring me to that directory, but neither of those work either. I've been wracking me brain for hours over this, watching tutorials and reading other answers but to no avail.
Anyone have any idea why this is occuring? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So I eventually figured it out if anyone else has the same issue. I had forgotten previously that I had my localhost running on port 80. However when I tried that before my apache server wouldn't start on MAMP, the reason being was due to port 80 being used by /private/etc/apache2, so I used the answer to this question
https://superuser.com/questions/986775/how-can-i-remove-apache2-that-i-have-installed-in-mac-os-x
to remove apache. (Alternatively I guess you could just change the port number it listens to in the httpd.conf files?) I then changed my MAMP to listen to port 80 and this fixed my problem. Hope this helps anyone else with same issue
I apologize for asking a question that's be asked before, but most of those questions have not been answered, and what few answers there are have not worked for me.
I am using Dreamweaver to build and manage my sites. Until now I have been successfully testing the sites on my remote host. But I want to add a database that I can test locally, so I am trying to use MAMP to create a virtual web server on my Mac (El Capitan, 10.11.5). Following standard instructions, after installing MAMP, I have edited the following files in my /private/etc folder as follows (showing only the changes):
etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
#127.0.0.1 fenixnest.pub.net
#127.0.0.1 fenixnest.dev.net
#127.0.0.1 fenixnest.tst.net
etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/_FenixNest/"
ServerName fenixnest.pub.net
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/_FenixDev/"
ServerName fenixnest.dev.net
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/_FenixTest/"
ServerName fenixnest.tst.net
</VirtualHost>
Here are the results in my browsers (Safari and Chrome):
When I enter "localhost" I get the appropriate "It Works" page.
When I enter "localhost/fenixnest.dev.net", I get "The requested URL /fenixnest.dev.net was not found on this server." (The same for the "tst" and "pub" sites.)
When I enter "localhost/_FenixDev" (the name of the site root folder), I get "The requested URL /_FenixDev was not found on this server."
When I enter "fenixnest.dev.net", I get "This site can't be reached. fenixnest.tst.net’s server DNS address could not be found."
I have experimented with including "localhost/" as the prefix to the ServerName in both etc/hosts and etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts.conf. I have also tried commenting out the localhost block in etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts.conf (as suggested in one similar question). Nothing I have tried so far works.
I really would like to get a working virtual host on my Mac. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I'm trying to set up a virtual host for a local site - something I've done literally hundreds of times - but something's going wrong this time.
My files are in C:\wwwroot\TEMPLATESITE
I have the following in my hosts file (last in a list of similar hostnames that all work)
127.0.0.1 templatesite.localhost.com
I have the following VirtualHost set up in my httpd-vhosts.conf (again, alongside a handful of other, identically set up, working sites)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host2.
DocumentRoot c:\wwwroot\TEMPLATESITE
ServerName templatesite.localhost.com
ErrorLog logs/templatesite.-error_log
CustomLog logs/templatesite.-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
(I've tried both with and without a trailing slash on the DocumentRoot)
Yet, no matter what I try, no matter how many times I restart Apache, or my machine, when I type in templatesite.localhost.com I end up at the root of c:\wwwroot which is my localhost root.
I'm guessing the problem is in my hosts file since the logs don't have any attempts to even access TEMPLATESITE so it seems like the hosts file is failing back to the generic localhost.
In that light, here's my entire hosts file:
127.0.0.1 lmm.localhost.com
127.0.0.1 lmm2.localhost.com
127.0.0.1 prairie.localhost.com
127.0.0.1 pinegrove.localhost.com
127.0.0.1 cas-pc.localhost.com
127.0.0.1 lksu.localhost.com
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 templatesite.localhost.com
Thoughts?
I started getting this error for all my local virtual hosts on apache in the morning when I updated my Chrome to the latest version on ubuntu.
While all of them work on other browsers chrome started misbehaving with ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error.
Screen shot for the error
Got it fixed like this:
Clear up the Chrome's DNS cache by typing this in the Chrome browser
chrome://net-internals/#dns
Screenshot -> Flushing Chrome DNS cache
You will see a button "Clear Host Cache". Press that DNS cache
will be flushed.
Keep this DNS window open. Now access the virtual host in the browser
for me it was http:/api.localhost. Once you do that you will see a
new entry in the DNS window. for me it was "localhost."
notice the period "." at the end of localhost that showed an error.
Last step is to simply add this entry as
127.0.0.1 localhost.
in the hosts file located at
for ubuntu : /etc/hosts
for windows : C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Another solution could be to ditch the .localhost /.dev at the end of your local virtual host domain
This has to do with some new changes by google. ".dev" and ".local" comes under google's TLD (In the corner of the internet where people care about DNS, there is a bit of an uproar at Google's application for over a hundred new top-level domains, including .dev etc)
Use a domain name you own. Possibly using the full name like "localhost.dev.$yourdomain" could help here on the setup.
Here is how to fix xampp virtual hosts in chrome and firefox that are ending with .dev. who doesn't work anymore (in most versions of chrome, since .dev is real domain registered and reserved from google - [Dev domain ICANN]).
I had so much trouble, with getting virtual hosts working properly
on both firefox and chrome, but at the end i find out that the best solution
is to make two different hosts for each local domain. So i ended up with something like: Here is hosts file in (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts):
This is needed, becouse if you still want your localhost alive
127.0.0.1 localhost.
::1 localhost.
fe80::1%lo0 localhost.
This works fine in Firefox.
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
::1 laravel.dev
fe80::1%lo0 laravel.dev
This works perfectly on Chrome.
127.0.0.1 laravel.localhost
::1 laravel.localhost
fe80::1%lo0 laravel.localhost
And here is my xampp httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#laravel
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/laravel/public/"
ServerName laravel.dev
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#laravel
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/laravel/public/"
ServerName laravel.localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#testsite
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/testsite/"
ServerName testsite.dev
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#testsite
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/testsite/"
ServerName testsite.localhost
</VirtualHost>
I hope this helps for someone, because i lost a couple hours, finding out the best solution, and make the things work. :)
tags - virtual host doesn't work on chrome.
Another option is to replace in your file /etc/hosts any entry defined as your_domain.localhost with something like local.your_domain. But this would also require you to change the "ServerName" and "ServerAlias" value in your virtual hosts files.
For me is working this:
In hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost.
::1 localhost.
fe80::1%lo0 localhost.
And In httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost localhost>
DocumentRoot "D:/Apache/htdocs/projects/some-project-root"
ServerName some-project.localhost
</VirtualHost>
Important is write to VirtualHost tag "localhost", "127.0.0.1" does not works in chrome.
I'm having issues loading VirtualHosts I've setup on my iMac, all that they appear to be returning are blank pages. I've tried multiple browsers, flushed my DNS cache, cleared browser cache etc but nothing appears to be fixing this.
Here is what my /etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts/conf file looks like:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<Directory "/Users/chris/Sites/test/">
Allow From All
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName "test.dev"
ServerAlias "test.dev.*.*.*.*.xip.io"
DocumentRoot "/Users/chris/Sites/test"
</VirtualHost>
Here is what my /etc/hosts file looks like:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
# VHX START
127.0.0.1 test.dev
fe80::1%lo0 test.dev
# VHX STOP
In my /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file I've made sure to uncomment the following line:
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
I'm using VirtualHostX to manage all of this but I've even resorted to deleting everything in these files and starting again following guides online – that didn't work either.
I've tried to tail the apache access log and whenever I try to access http://test.dev nothing shows up in that file or the apache error log – it's as though my machine has absolutely no idea that URL exists even though I believe everything is setup correctly.
Any ideas on how I can fix this?
Thanks,
Chris