Issues with creating virtual hosts on Windows 7 machine with WAMP

Server Config
1

I am running into some problems with my virtual hosts set up on my local machine. I am running Windows 7 and Apache 2.2 on the machine.

This is my hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts :

# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#	127.0.0.1       localhost
#	::1             localhost

127.0.0.1		localhost
127.0.0.1		testsite

This is my httpd-vhosts.conf file:

#
# Virtual Hosts
#
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.localhost
    DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/dummy-host.localhost"
    ServerName dummy-host.localhost
    ServerAlias www.dummy-host.localhost
    ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.localhost-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.localhost
    DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/dummy-host2.localhost"
    ServerName dummy-host2.localhost
    ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	DocumentRoot "C:/httpdocs/test/"
	ServerName testsite
	ErrorLog "logs/testsite.log"
</VirtualHost>

The issue that testsite and localhost have become the same thing. I can goto http://testsite/test to access the same thing as http://localhost/test

Any ideas?

2

brad,

Where did you install WAMP?

I’ve always advised NOT installing (individual WAMP apps) in a Win7-protected directory as you MUST save files there as the Administrator - not worth the effort.

What about the httpd.conf file? Were you successful in removing the comment to enable including the httpd-vhosts.conf?

I didn’t see a syntax problem with your code and must assume that Apache is loading so that’s verification.

Regards,

DK

3

I am not using a pre-packaged WAMP version like wampserver, rather using stand alone installs of Apache, MySQL and PHP and my Windows & machine.

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2
C:\Program Files\MySQL
C:\Program Files\PHP

Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks for your help David.

4

brad,

Program Files is the problem because you have to make all your edits of the files there as Administrator. I learned that the hard way and have yet to look back after installing everything (except MySQL) on the W: drive (partition - far, far away from any WinDoze-protected file.

If you don’t believe me, take a look at the httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf and see if they have the edits you made. Have a look at the files located within the htdocs directory, too.

It’s nice that M$ is finally taking security seriously but they make it a real PITA the way they’ve implemented it.

Regards,

DK