Apache VirtualHost and localhost

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I m working with XAMPP on Mac OS X  I m trying to run a Symfony website properly for a client  and I really don t know Symfony  yet   I just want to install and launch it  I ve changed my  etc hosts file this way  127 0 0 1 www mysite local  And the httpd conf file this way   lt VirtualHost   80 gt    ServerName www mysite local   DocumentRoot  Applications MAMP htdocs mysite web   DirectoryIndex index php    lt Directory  Applications MAMP htdocs mysite web gt      AllowOverride All     Allow from All    lt  Directory gt    Alias  sf  Applications MAMP htdocs mysite lib vendor symfony data web sf    lt Directory  quot  Applications MAMP htdocs mysite lib vendor symfony data web sf quot  gt      AllowOverride All     Allow from All    lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt   Now  the site is working  yay    but I can t access any more any of my other local sites because localhost is rendered as www mysite local  Where am I wrong  Thank you

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localhost will always redirect to 127 0 0 1  You can trick this by naming your other VirtualHost to other local loop-back address  such as 127 0 0 2  Make sure you also change the corresponding hosts file to implement this   For example  my httpd-vhosts conf looks like this    lt VirtualHost 127 0 0 2 80 gt      DocumentRoot  D  6  App Data XAMPP Shared htdocs intranet      ServerName intranet dev     ServerAlias www intranet dev     ErrorLog  logs intranet dev-error log      CustomLog  logs intranet dec-access log  combined       lt Directory  D  6  App Data XAMPP Shared htdocs intranet  gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes         Order allow deny         Allow from all         AllowOverride All         Require all granted      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt     Notice that in  lt VirtualHost gt  section I typed 127 0 0 2 80  It means that this block of VirtualHost will only affects requests to IP address 127 0 0 2 port 80  which is the default port for HTTP   To route the name intranet dev properly  my hosts entry line is like this   127 0 0 2 intranet dev   This way  it will prevent you from creating another VirtualHost block for localhost  which is unnecessary

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I had the same issue of accessing localhost while working with virtualHost  I resolved it by adding the name in the virtualHost listen code like below  In my hosts file  I have added the below code  C  Windows System32 drivers etc hosts  - 127 0 0 1   main live  And in my httpd conf I have added the below code   lt VirtualHost main live 80 gt      DocumentRoot H  wamp www raj main live      ServerName main live  lt  VirtualHost gt   That s it  It works  and I can use both localhost  phpmyadmin  as well as main live  my virtual project  simultaneously

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Just change  lt VirtualHost   80 gt  to  lt VirtualHost 127 0 0 1 80 gt   Then the default DocumentRoot will serve for all domains or IP addresses that point to your server and specified VirtualHost will work

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For someone doing everything described here and still can t access  XAMPP with Apache HTTP Server 2 4  In file httpd-vhost conf   lt VirtualHost   gt      DocumentRoot  quot D  xampp htdocs dir quot      ServerName something dev     lt Directory  quot D  xampp htdocs dir quot  gt      Require all granted  apache v 2 4 4 uses just this     lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    There isn t any need for a port  or an IP address here  Apache configures it on its own files  There isn t any need for NameVirtualHost   80  it s deprecated  You can use it  but it doesn t make any difference  Then to edit hosts  you must run Notepad as administrator  described bellow   If you were editing the file without doing this  you are editing a pseudo file  not the original  yes  it saves  etc   but it s not the real file  In Windows  Find the Notepad icon  right click  run as administrator  open file  go to C  WINDOWS system32 driver etc hosts  check  quot See all files quot   and open hosts  If you where editing it before  probably you will see it s not the file you were previously editing when not running as administrator  Then to check if Apache is reading your httpd-vhost conf  go to folder xampFolder apache bin  Shift   right click  open a terminal command here  open XAMPP  as you usually do   start Apache  and then on the command line  type httpd -S  You will see a list of the virtual hosts  Just check if your something dev is there

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This is normal if you see it  Since it is the first virtual host entry  it will show local host  Let   s say for example you didn t want that page to show  All you want to show is the  quot Apache  it works quot  page  so you would make a vhost entry before mysite local as local host and point it to the  quot it works quot  page  But this is normal  I had this problem before  so don t worry

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According to this documentation  Name-based Virtual Host Support  You may be missing the following directive   NameVirtualHost   80

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I am running Ubuntu  16 04  Xenial Xerus   This is what worked for me   Open up a terminal and cd to  etc apache2 sites-available  There you will find a file called 000-default conf  Copy that file  cp 000-default conf example local conf Open that new file  I use Nano  use what you are comfortable with   You will see a lot of commented lines  which you can delete  Change  lt VirtualHost   80 gt  to  lt VirtualHost example local 80 gt  Change the document root to reflect the location of your files  Add the following line  ServerName example local And if you need to  add this line  ServerAlias www example local Save the file and restart Apache  service Apache2 restart  Open a browser and navigate to example local  You should see your website

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Additional description for John Smith s answer from the official documentation  To understand why it is   Main host goes away If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server  you must also create a  block for the existing host  The ServerName and DocumentRoot included in this virtual host should be the same as the global ServerName and DocumentRoot  List this virtual host first in the configuration file so that it will act as the default host   For example  to work properly with XAMPP  to prevent VirtualHost overriding the main host  add the follow lines into file httpd-vhosts conf    Main host  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName localhost     DocumentRoot  quot  xampp htdocs quot   lt  VirtualHost gt     Additional host  lt VirtualHost   80 gt        Over directives there  lt  VirtualHost gt

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This worked for me   To run projects like http   localhost projectName     lt VirtualHost localhost 80 gt     ServerAdmin localhost     DocumentRoot path to htdocs      ServerName localhost  lt  VirtualHost gt    To run projects like http   somewebsite com locally   lt VirtualHost somewebsite com 80 gt       ServerAdmin webmaster example com      DocumentRoot  path to htdocs somewebsiteFolder      ServerName www somewebsite com      ServerAlias somewebsite com  lt  VirtualHost gt    Same for other websites   lt VirtualHost anothersite local 80 gt       ServerAdmin webmaster example com      DocumentRoot  path to htdocs anotherSiteFolder      ServerName www anothersite local      ServerAlias anothersite com  lt  VirtualHost gt

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It may be because your web folder  as mentioned  quot  Applications MAMP htdocs mysite web quot   is empty  My suggestion is first to make your project and then work on making the virtual host  I went with a similar situation  I was using an empty folder in the DocumentRoot in httpd-vhosts confiz and I couldn t access my shahg101 com site

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You may want to use this   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  quot somepath Apache2 2 htdocs quot      ServerName localhost  lt  VirtualHost gt   lt VirtualHost   80 gt   as your first virtual host  place it before another virtual hosts

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