Virtual Hosts Using XAMPP (Setting Virtual Host Pada XAMPP)

How to Edit Your Computers Hosts File

To edit the hosts file in a notepad editor do:

• Click Start then enter cmd in the search box.
• Right-click the cmd program and select Run as administrator

• In the command prompt that shows enter the following 2 commands

copy C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts C:\Windows\Temp

notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

• The first of these two commands is just to make a copy of the hosts file, so that you can restore it later if you want to.
• The second command opens the hosts file in Notepad so you can edit it. Normally you can remove all lines in that file that doesn't start with a #, except if the line says: 127.0.0.1 localhost
• Save the hosts file

How To Set Up Virtual Hosts Using XAMPP

Navigate to C:/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

 

1. At the very bottom of the file paste the following

<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs" ServerName localhost </VirtualHost>   <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/project/public" ServerName www.website.com </VirtualHost> Now we head over to our Windows Hosts File, to edit the HOSTS. the file will be located at C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts, where hosts is the file. 127.0.0.1             localhost 127.0.0.1             www.website.com Restart Apache and test to make sure it is working