Apache VirtualHost and localhost

Question

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Answer 1

I had the same issue of accessing localhost while working with virtualHost. I resolved it by adding the name in the virtualHost listen code like below:

In my hosts file, I have added the below code (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) -

127.0.0.1   main_live

And in my httpd.conf I have added the below code:

<VirtualHost main_live:80>
    DocumentRoot H:/wamp/www/raj/main_live/
    ServerName main_live
</VirtualHost>

That's it. It works, and I can use both localhost, phpmyadmin, as well as main_live (my virtual project) simultaneously.

Answer 2

According to this documentation: Name-based Virtual Host Support

You may be missing the following directive:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Answer 3

This worked for me!

To run projects like http://localhost/projectName

<VirtualHost localhost:80>
   ServerAdmin localhost
    DocumentRoot path/to/htdocs/
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

To run projects like http://somewebsite.com locally

<VirtualHost somewebsite.com:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
     DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/somewebsiteFolder
     ServerName www.somewebsite.com
     ServerAlias somewebsite.com
</VirtualHost>

Same for other websites

<VirtualHost anothersite.local:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
     DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/anotherSiteFolder
     ServerName www.anothersite.local
     ServerAlias anothersite.com
</VirtualHost>

Answer 4

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). This is what worked for me:

1. Open up a terminal and cd to /etc/apache2/sites-available. There you will find a file called 000-default.conf.
2. Copy that file: cp 000-default.conf example.local.conf
3. Open that new file (I use Nano; use what you are comfortable with).
4. You will see a lot of commented lines, which you can delete.
5. Change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost example.local:80>
6. Change the document root to reflect the location of your files.
7. Add the following line: ServerName example.local And if you need to, add this line: ServerAlias www.example.local
8. Save the file and restart Apache: service Apache2 restart

Open a browser and navigate to example.local. You should see your website.

Answer 5

You may want to use this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "somepath\Apache2.2\htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>

as your first virtual host (place it before another virtual hosts).

Answer 6

localhost will always redirect to 127.0.0.1. You can trick this by naming your other VirtualHost to other local loop-back address, such as 127.0.0.2. Make sure you also change the corresponding hosts file to implement this.

For example, my httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
    DocumentRoot "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet"
    ServerName intranet.dev
    ServerAlias www.intranet.dev
    ErrorLog "logs/intranet.dev-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/intranet.dec-access.log" combined

    <Directory "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

(Notice that in <VirtualHost> section I typed 127.0.0.2:80. It means that this block of VirtualHost will only affects requests to IP address 127.0.0.2 port 80, which is the default port for HTTP.

To route the name intranet.dev properly, my hosts entry line is like this:

127.0.0.2 intranet.dev

This way, it will prevent you from creating another VirtualHost block for localhost, which is unnecessary.