My Question in the title may be wrong, but I have no other Idea how to word it. (Experts please help with this?).
Basically sub domains works on my Development Machine when I got to URL http://subdomain.localhost
. What I am trying to achieve is loading that same website using http://subdomain.jacques
. jacques
being the name of my computer.
This is what I have in my hosts
file in windows.
127.0.0.1 localhost
localhost localhost
jacques localhost
subdomain.127.0.0.1 subdomain.localhost
subdomain.localhost subdomain.localhost
subdomain.jacques subdomain.localhost
This is what I have in the vhosts.conf
file.
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "c:\web"
<VirtualHost jacques:80 jacques *:80>
<Directory "c:\web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "c:\web"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost subdomain.jacques *:80>
ServerName subdomain.localhost
ServerName subdomain.jacques
ServerAlias subdomain.localhost
ServerAlias subdomain.jacques
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\subdomain"
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
<Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\subdomain">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
What I have tried from reading the documentation on the Apache website:
- Adding the PC name to the
<VirtualHost>
tag. - Adding another
ServerName
/ServerAlias
to the Virtual Host - Adding entries into the
hosts
file in Windows
I have no idea what I am doing wrong, so even if you can answer the question, please point me in the right direction.
System Details
- OS: Windows 10
- Apache Version: 2.4
- PHP Version: 5.4 (Not sure if this is useful or even relevant.)
- Apache Install Path
c:\amp\apache
- PHP Install Path
c:\amp\php
Best Answer
this is wrong format. Must be - "ip address fqdn"
As for virtual hosts
You can use domain (and any subdomain) lvh.me for testing purpose. As it resolves to 127.0.0.1. So there is no need to edit hosts file