dns points to wrong directory - apache

Question

I'm trying to setup two virtual hosts in windows using xampp. From what I've read one have to alter the windows hosts file and xampp's httpd-vhosts.conf file.
hosts file:
127.0.0.1 gholizadeh
127.0.0.1 doostr
127.0.0.1 localhost
vhosts file:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost gholizadeh>
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey\pappa"
ServerName gholizadeh.se
ServerAlias www.gholizadeh.se
<Directory "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey\pappa">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost doostr>
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey"
ServerName doostr.com
ServerAlias www.doostr.com
<Directory "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost localhost>
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "E:\xampp">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
But I'm having problem accessing these files. When I try it from my own LAN I get prompted to the xampp site and when get access denied when trying to enter it from extern network. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You got the VirtualHost command wrong. Use it like this instead:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName gholizadeh.se
ServerAlias www.gholizadeh.se
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey\pappa"
<Directory "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey\pappa">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName doostr.com
ServerAlias www.doostr.com
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey"
<Directory "E:\xampp\htdocs\lowkey">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp"
<Directory "E:\xampp">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Some more things:
* you should add a ServerAdminto each host
* the entries in the host file are just for internal debugging purposes, I assume?
And a side remark:
you don't plan to serve real web pages in the internet from this MS-Windows system, do you?