Multiple Virtual Sites with Wampserver - virtualhost

Question

I've having a problem creating multiple virtual hosts, I've edit C:\wamp\alias\web.local to look like this:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website1.local
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website1.com"
ServerName website1.local
<Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website1.com">
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website2.local
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website2.com"
ServerName website2.local
<Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website2.com">
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website3.local
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website3.com"
ServerName website3.local
<Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website3.com">
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website4.local
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website4.com"
ServerName website4.local
<Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website4.com">
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
and my hosts file looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 website1.local
127.0.0.1 website2.local
127.0.0.1 website3.local
127.0.0.1 website4.local
I've restarted Wampserver but I don't seem to be able to access website1.local, website2.local, website3.local or website4.local. I get a 'Network Error (dns_unresolved_hostname)' error message.
Please note localhost is the only one that seems to work.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Stephen
EDIT
I'm running Wampserver 2.2 on Windows XP.

Answer 1

Couple of problems, You dont create virtual hosts by editing that file.
You use this file c:\wamp\bin\apache\apache.2.x.y\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
then you uncomment the 'Include conf/extra/chris-vhosts.conf' from within the https.conf file, its near the bottom of the file.
Now the VHOST definitions you quote above look pretty good so you can probably just move then to the correct place and you a pretty good to go.
Except for
Is is a Very Very bad idea to use directory structures that contain spaces eg
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/username/workspace/www.website3.com"
It is much safer to place your site code in a structure something like this
C:\websites\www\website3
C:\websites\www\website4
or even
D:\websites\www\website4
Oh and one more thing, you only need one reference to
NameVirtualHost *:80
Normally the first line of the vhost definition file.