Problem in creating two Virtual Hosts

Question

HI i m trying to create virtual hosts for my PHP sites.I edited httpd-vhosts.conf with the following code

<VirtualHost *:80>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/logo
 ServerName localhost
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/new
 ServerName local
 </VirtualHost>

and host file with

127.0.0.1       local
127.0.0.1       localhost

Now the logo project is accessible but the new is not.

Answer 1

When you write <VirtualHost *:80> you are telling Apache to listen in any ip address regardless the ServerName.

What you have to do it's put the ServerName instead of *, like this:

<VirtualHost localhost:80>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/logo
 ServerName localhost
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost local:80>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/new
 ServerName local
 </VirtualHost>

This is because the ServerName is in the HTTP header.

Answer 2

NameVirtualHost localhost
<VirtualHost localhost>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/logo
 ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost local
<VirtualHost local>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/new
 ServerName local
</VirtualHost>

I would try this.

Answer 3

i think you cannot use local as virtualname, try something like local.de or dev.de I don't know, but at least with one point in it.

I believe the only exception to that is localhost.

also don't forgot to restart the apache server when you change the config file

EDIT:

<VirtualHost *:80>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/logo
 ServerName localhost
 ServerAlias localhost
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>  
 DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/new
 ServerName dev.com
 ServerAlias dev.com
 </VirtualHost>

try this, this is how I use it