Comments on: Setting Up Multiple Apache Local Web Sites On Your Computer

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:10:50 +0000

so, NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1 is outside of all tags. By itself.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:09:58 +0000

…and I see why now! The submission form on this page removes the tags - lol.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:08:55 +0000

I figured it out. Thank you, bye!

(Just Kidding)

The problem I think that many people are having is the syntax. Jeff, you are right. It has to do with the NameVirtualHost directive. I was having trouble because most of the examples are not showing the exact syntax with respects to open and close tags (ie: . So, here is the syntax:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

ServerName domain1
DocumentRoot “C:\path_to_domains\domain1\httpdocs”

ServerName domain2
DocumentRoot “C:\path_to_domains\domain2\httpdocs”

Andrew.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:55:45 +0000

I am having the same problem as many others - the first virtualhost becomes the default. I followed all the suggestions in some of the responses (include the NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1). No luck. What else could this be?

By: Joe Schwab

Joe Schwab — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:02:06 +0000

Hey Azmeen,
thanks for your response, Im running MAMP on mac OS X (which is essentially unix).

if i were to edit each clients host file, would i point them to the internal IP address(192.168.1.x)? and not the localhost 127.0.0.1. does that sound about right?

Joe

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:01:47 +0000

Hi Joe Schwab,

It depends on what your web server runs. If it’s on a Linux box, you could run the Samba service and set aliases for the hostnames you want to server pages on.

On a Windows network, I don’t think there’s a similar function unfortunately. The tedious alternative would be to edit each client’s hosts file.

By: Joe Schwab

Joe Schwab — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:44:58 +0000

This is a great article.
does anyone know how i can configure these local host names to be viewable by other machines within the same network. since these are not domains, and there is no internal DNS services, im not sure how this would work.

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:03:25 +0000

J Berg,

I think the instructions in Using Local VirtualHosts On Apache 2.0.x would be more suitable for you.

I use Apache 2.2.x myself and they work like a charm

By: J Berg

J Berg — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:57:32 +0000

I had to remove the symbols from the lines that dit not show up on this website. Here is my virtual configuration again

VirtualHost *
DocumentRoot “D:\Apache2.2\htdocs”
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog logs/defaultsite-error_log
CustomLog logs/defaultsite-access_log common

VirtualHost *:8001
DocumentRoot “D:\BUGZILLA”
ServerName bugzilla
ErrorLog logs/bugzilla-error_log
CustomLog logs/bugzilla-access_log common
VirtualHost

Directory “D:\BUGZILLA”
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Directory

By: J Berg

J Berg — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:51:53 +0000

Does not seem to work for me (I do use apache 2.2). If I type bugzilla:8001 I get the apache “it works” page. I should get the login page

Here is my configuration

Hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 bugzilla

httpd.conf

#Listen 0.0.0.0:0
Listen 8089
Listen 8001

# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
DocumentRoot “D:\Apache2.2\htdocs”

# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

httpd-vhost.conf

NameVirtualHost *:8089

# VirtualHost example:

DocumentRoot “D:\Apache2.2\htdocs”
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog logs/defaultsite-error_log
CustomLog logs/defaultsite-access_log common

DocumentRoot “D:\BUGZILLA”
ServerName bugzilla
ErrorLog logs/bugzilla-error_log
CustomLog logs/bugzilla-access_log common

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all