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?
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Created a new Laravel project in htdocs in MAMP. Followed all the steps, added virtual hosts, changed conf file, etc/hosts, restarted mamp and my pc several times but I just can't get my virtual host to run.
however, when I am in the MAMP Dashboard I can navigate to my website -> website -> public and the default Laravel boilerplate page appears.
Has anyone had this issues with MAMP before? I gave up with XAMPP and Valet so it's my last chance here..
Specs
High Sierra 10.13.5 on 2015 MBP,
Composer version 1.6.5,
php 7.2.7
httpd.conf
# Virtual hosts
Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
httpd-vhosts
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "Applications/MAMP/htdocs/website/public"
ServerName website.dev
</VirtualHost>
etc/hosts
##
# 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
127.0.0.1 website.dev
website.dev is technically a public url, so the browser is looking for it on the internet I guess. I was trapped once in this dreadful situation. changing the name to something like website.local should solve your issue. It did for me.
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 want to have two webapps (webapp1 and webapp2 resident under /var/www/html/webapps/), both using PHP and JSP, running on the same machine:
Apache 2.4
Tomcat 7.0.50 (+APJ connector)
and want to make them accessible through the following URLs (with identical IP and ports):
localhost/webapp1
localhost/webapp2
I am aware of Virtual Hosts facility. The problem is that Apache seems to "see" only the first site available: whenever I look for localhost/webapp2, I get a 'Not Found' error. Note that if I look for "localhost:8080/webapp2" (i.e., bypassing apache2) everything works fine.
Each webapp has its own conf file under sites-available directory. For example, in webapp2.conf I have
JkMountCopy On
JkMount /webapp2/* tomcat_worker
How can I solve?
From the documentation
Note
Creating virtual host configurations on your Apache server does not magically cause DNS entries to be created for those host names. You must have the names in DNS, resolving to your IP address, or nobody else will be able to see your web site. You can put entries in your hosts file for local testing, but that will work only from the machine with those hosts entries.
Listen 80
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:80>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot "/www/domain-80"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:8080>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot "/www/domain-8080"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:80>
ServerName www.example.org
DocumentRoot "/www/otherdomain-80"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.20.30.40:8080>
ServerName www.example.org
DocumentRoot "/www/otherdomain-8080"
</VirtualHost>
If you want additional help, show us your configuration files related.
the problem:
I am running a Windows Vserver and on this server I'm running a standalone Grails app on port 8081, which means that when I open
localhost:8081 (local) or domain:8081
in the browser, I see the interface of the Grails app.
What I am looking for is a way to type
subdomain.domain
that forwards me to
domain:port
I have read that this can be done using a virtual host on Apache. I used the XAMPP Apache because I'm running XAMPP MySQL anyway.
I added this line to the WIndows host file:
127.0.0.1 subdomain.domain
and this part to apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName http://localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName http://subdomain.localhost
Redirect / http://localhost:8081
</VirtualHost>
What I expected:
when I open domain I see the xampp admin interface
when I open subdomain.domain I see the Grails app (as domain:port)
What happens:
no matter wheather I open domain oder subdomain.domain I'm always forwarded to domain:port
What am I doing wrong?
Regards
H
Solution (no idea where the technical difference is):
<VirtualHost Server-IP:80>
ServerName http://domain
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost Server-IP:80>
ServerName http://subdomain.domain
Redirect / http://domain:port
</VirtualHost>
I even didn't have to make any entries in the Windows host file. NameVirtualHost wasn't necessary either.
I am currently trying to configure the Virtual Host (Subdomain) of my Apache HTTP Server so it can be accessed with another computer on my LAN. The current setup of Apache with PHP and MySQL works locally on the same physical machine.
So I have two Virtual Host setup (development and cms) running on a non-default port of 50080. The machine of the server have a IP of 10.0.0.10. From the same physical machine, I can access the two Virtual Host using:
development.localhost:50080
cms.localhost:50080
From a different physical machine, I can access the root of the server using:
10.0.0.10:50080
But I cannot or do not know how to access the Virtual Host from the different machine. I tried something like:
development.10.0.0.10:50080
cms.10.0.0.10:50080
But they do not seem to work.
Here's how my httpd-vhosts file looks like:
NameVirtualHost *:50080
<VirtualHost *:50080>
DocumentRoot "C:/www/HTTP"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:50080>
ServerAdmin administrator#development.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/www/HTTP/development"
ServerName development.localhost
ErrorLog "logs/development.localhost-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/development.localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
I read some of the other post here and the Apache forum, but there's not exact case for this.
I was wondering how I can access the Virtual Host (Subdomain) from another machine and keep the same port if possible.
Thanks in advance
Ok, I figured it out, here are the configuration if anyone else is looking for this:
==================================================================================
Machine A (Apache HTTP Server):
httpd-vhost:
NameVirtualHost *:50080
<VirtualHost *:50080>
DocumentRoot "C:/www/HTTP"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias alias <!-- Added -->
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:50080>
ServerAdmin administrator#development.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/www/HTTP/development"
ServerName development.localhost
ServerAlias development.phoenix <!-- Added -->
ErrorLog "logs/development.localhost-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/development.localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
hosts:
127.0.0.1 development.localhost
127.0.0.1 alias
127.0.0.1 development.alias
==================================================================================
Machine B (Guest Machine):
hosts:
10.0.0.10 alias
10.0.0.10 development.alias
From the second machine, you should be able to access with "alias" and "development.alias"
I suggest making the following change (add the ServerAlias lines):
NameVirtualHost *:50080
<VirtualHost *:50080>
DocumentRoot "C:/www/HTTP"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias cms.myserver.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:50080>
ServerAdmin administrator#development.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/www/HTTP/development"
ServerName development.localhost
ServerAlias development.myserver.com
ErrorLog "logs/development.localhost-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/development.localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Restart Apache to ensure the changes take effect.
Then on your second computer you need to add a custom dns entry for these new domain names. If it is Windows, edit the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. If it is Linux, edit /etc/hosts. Either way add:
10.0.0.10 development.myserver.com
10.0.0.10 cms.myserver.com
Now on your second computer you should be able to access the following URLs:
http://development.myserver.com:50080
http://cms.myserver.com:50080
Unless I'm missing something, you'll need to either set up DNS entries, or add entries to the /etc/hosts file of each computer accessing the server.
localhost is an entry that exists in everyone's /etc/hosts file by default, always pointing to 127.0.0.1. Without adding a /etc/hosts entry, developer.localhost doesn't exist, and prefixing an ip address with a subdomain won't work at all.
Using a SSH + Putty tunnel, and thus having a 127.0.0.1 on my server, I managed to access my subdomains by doing the following on my server side:
# nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 sub1.domain.com sub2.domain.com sub3.domain.com sub4.domain.com
I did not change the host file of the remote computer, and it works like a charm
For Named Virtual Hosts you need to use a hostname or domainname to connect to you apache server. It does not work with ips.
You could insert an entry in your /etc/hosts on your second system.