domain name doesn't work with www ahead

Question

On my machine I'm using WAMP with virtual hosts. All I did was to add 127.0.0.1 my-project.loc line into system32\drivers\etc\host file and the following code into httpd-vhost.conf from the Apache2.2.11\conf\extra folder.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/my-project.loc"
    ServerName my-project.loc
    ErrorLog "logs/my-project.loc-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/my-project.loc.log" common
</VirtualHost>

My question is how can i make the www.my-project.loc to work too. Can you give me the smart solution, because i assume that writing the same code but this time with ServerName www.my-project.loc isn't a good idea.

TY

Answer 1

Add the following line under the ServerName directive: ServerAlias www.my-project.loc

Answer 2

You'll need a second <VirtualHost> block with ServerName www.my-project.loc and the same DocumentRoot

Ideally, the second block would use mod_rewrite to redirect (301) all requests to one "canonical" hostname rather than having two identical copies of your website. Example:

RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 /(.*) http://my-project.loc/$1

Answer 3

Add another line to your hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.my-project.loc

And then add this line after ServerName directive in your virtual host config:

ServerAlias www.my-project.loc