How to customise my URL which is having IP Address - apache

Question

Is it possible to configure my URL which has my IP address on it- like: "http://192.168.xx.yy/index.php". The situation is when I run Apache server in my PC, and load localhost in it. I know it is possible after hosting with external server, but is there any way we can configure within our localhost?
How to configure the Apache files to make this happen? I tried in my localhost, editing the "httpd.conf" by adding this inside like this - please tell me where I am getting the issue!
ServerName localhost:80
HostnameLookups Off
<VirtualHost *:80>
# This first-listed virtual host is also the default for *:80
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
DocumentRoot /www/domain
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName other.example.com
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain
</VirtualHost>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/"

Answer 1

Yes, you can play with multiple IP addresses on your machine. Configuration depends on your OS. Article Create Multiple IP Addresses to One Single Network Interface is for linux.
But, better way is to use VirtualHosts based on host names or (simplest) on ports. So you can get http://siteA.mycoputer.localhost, http://siteB.mycomputer.localhost in the first case and http://192.168.x.y:8000, http://192.168.x.y:9000 in the second case
Here is Apache Server config example from Apache Server 2.2 documentation
# Ensure that Apache listens on port 80
Listen 80
# Listen for virtual host requests on all IP addresses
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/example1
ServerName www.example.com
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/example2
ServerName www.example.org
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>