How do I get a subdomain on Xampp Apache @ localhost?

Question

**UPDATE- I got it working now, I just had to change to The port number is important here.

I just modified my windows HOST file @ C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

and added this to the end of it

127.0.0.1 images.localhost
127.0.0.1 w-w-w.friendproject-.com
127.0.0.1 friendproject.-com

Then I modified my httpd-vhosts.conf file on Apache under Xampp @ C:\webserver\apache\conf\extra

Under the part where it shows examples for adding virtualhost I added this code below:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /htdocs/images/
    ServerName images.localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /htdocs/
    ServerName friendproject.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /htdocs/
    ServerName w-ww-.friendproject.c-om/
</VirtualHost>

Now the problem is when I go to any of the newly added domains in the browser I get this error below and even worse news is I now get this error even when going to http://localhost/ which worked fine before doing this

I realize I can change everything back but I really need to at least get htt-p://im-ages.localhost to work.

What do I do?

Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster . Error 403 localhost 07/25/09 21:20:14 Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.9

Answer 1

Sounds like you're trying to access a directory instead of a file. Try with a url of some image, or add "Options +Indexes" to your apache conf to have it show directory listings