[Apache] VirtualHosts on 'localhost'

How do I create VirtualHosts on my testserver?

[GrodanBoll]

Hi

Can someone tell if I can create VirtualHosts on my testserver? I access the testserver by the usual 'http://localhost'.

If i can, how do I do it?

/Grodan :)

[gethan]

The big advantage of using ports if you don't want to do DNS (or can't) and don't want to edit every hosts file on the network is that:

Your webserver is accessible by your colleagues boss what have you for every one on you network.

Eg. you can send out a mail saying

"for the latest version of my gumph take a look at

[yourmachine:81...]

And then continue coding on port 82 etc..

[PsychoTekk]

hi gethan, and thanks :)
i assumed that i just needed to define listen & vhost
for additional hosts using port numbers different from the default
port defined by "Port:"
it's working here now, too :)

[fred flinstone]

I just searched on in and found the message threads here great in getting my Apache on Win 98 to do virtual hosts.

So, I'd like to contribute ... for the next person that may come along.

Note: in my case instead of localhost I have "sodium" as my computer name.

In "Hosts" file (located in C:\Windows):
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 sodium
127.0.0.1 dev.sodium <-- I added

In httpd.conf file:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs"
ServerName sodium
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@morton
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/manual"
ServerName dev.sodium
ErrorLog logs/dev.sodium.error.log
CustomLog logs/dev.sodium.access.log common
</VirtualHost>

[sugarkane]

Fred, thanks for that and welcome to the forum :)