Setting Virtual Host In XAMPP

I have try a little bit experiment in setting up virtual host in XAMPP. By default, domain name of apache server is localhost. when we using virtual host, we can set up multiple domain name in apache server. Supposed You want to set up http://adisembiring.com, http://sembiringadi.com, http://forum.adisembiring.com and etc.

How to configure apache in xampp in order to have virtual host ability. Check it out

• Open your virtual on http_vhost.conf in your apache extra configuration directory. my file path is: C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf.
• To set listened port of apache virtual host, uncomment NameVirtualHost and specify the listened port. ex, NameVirtualHost *:80
• Specify the document root of virtual host and server name

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot E:/data/httdocs/forum
	ServerName servername.com

	<Directory "E:/data/httdocs/forum">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

• configure host driver in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
• add new server host 127.0.0.1        servername.com

this is my virtual host configuration

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot E:/data/httdocs/forum
	ServerName ravelex.biz

	<Directory "E:/data/httdocs/forum">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot E:/data/httdocs
	ServerName localhost

	<Directory "E:/data/httdocs">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot E:/data/httdocs/ravelex
	ServerName rportal.biz

	<Directory "E:/data/httdocs/ravelex">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

NB: When you setup virtual host in your xampp server, your localhost will not work anymore. To make it work again, you can add new virtual host redirected to localhost as I have write above.

Hope this article help you. Thanks