Comments on: How to Configure NameVirtualHost in XAMPP’s Apache Server

By: Pixeldrummer

Pixeldrummer — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:52:52 +0000

Thank you so much for your post. It was a bit of a nightmare finding the right tool (XAMPP) to use on my Windows machine. Then more frustration trying to configure it to use as a web server. I tried a few other instructions and nothing worked until I read yours. I’ll now be able to take over the maintenance of a couple of website applications for a client whose sites I could not “see” and test with IIS (even though it worked for PHP sites) because they use .htaccess. I am sooooo grateful!

By: Hal

Hal — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:15:59 +0000

This was great — clear, concise and it works perfectly. I’m using XAMPP 1.7.7 on Windows 7 – no Windows reboot necessary. Just update the hosts file & apache CONF file and you’re good to go.

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:41:30 +0000

Thanks for this, I was on another site which had an example that didn’t work and was a lot more complicated.

By: Subash Pathak

Subash Pathak — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:36:02 +0000

Thanks DUDE

By: ardamis

ardamis — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:52:28 +0000

It looks like you are missing part of the HOSTS file line.

The line in HOSTS should be:

127.0.0.1 sumitlocal.localhost

It also looks like you are missing some lines in xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf.

The lines should be:

NameVirtualHost *:80

    DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost


    DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/sumitlocal"
    ServerName sumitlocal.localhost

Good luck.

By: sumit kalra

sumit kalra — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:43:54 +0000

Hosts file content :127.0.0.1 sumitlocal
httpd-vhosts.conf Content

DocumentRoot “c:/xampp/htdocs/sumitlocal”
ServerName sumitlocal.localhost

After changes its showing me xampp folder content (http://localhost/ )

Please tell me what should i do
its show lthe path //http://sumitlocal/xampp
After restart of my system and appache server its not working
still the same problem i am not abel to run my virtual site

i am using window 7 can i send u my both setting files

By: sumit kalra

sumit kalra — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:15:40 +0000

its not working

By: sumit kalra

sumit kalra — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:44:01 +0000

Hosts file content :127.0.0.1 sumitlocal
httpd-vhosts.conf Content

DocumentRoot “c:/xampp/htdocs/sumitlocal”
ServerName sumitlocal.localhost

After changes its showing me xampp folder content (http://localhost/ )

Please tell me what should i do
its show lthe path //http://sumitlocal/xampp

By: Kevin Stevens

Kevin Stevens — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:18:53 +0000

Thanks, I was having an issue with this and your post pointed the way (needed to add the ‘ServerName localhost’ to my almost working configuration).
I am running xampp on Windows 7, and have found that you can leave out the drive letter in the path names, which means it’s still a portable configuration : i.e.

DocumentRoot “/xampp/htdocs/drupal”
ServerName drupal.localhost

Works for me – ymmv!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:24:26 +0000

Hi!
I could not save the host file because this file doesn’t have any extensions. What should I do?