Virtual Hosts Example

A working Virtual Hosts file example

I’ve seen many times where people (myself included) had trouble getting their Virtual Hosts configuration to work properly. There are several issues that can keep a Virtual Host from working, but many times the problem is directly related to the Virtual Hosts file itself.

Below is an example of a Virtual Hosts file that is working properly on one of my localhost testing servers via XAMPP on a Windows 7 Machine. This file will work the same directly in Apache from within Linux as well.

I’m not saying it’s the best configuration, I’m just saying it works. Anyway, I hope it helps someone.

All you have to do is change the paths, server names and whatever else is custom in your situation.

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
  ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress.local"
  ServerName wordpress.local
  ServerAlias www.wordpress.local
  DirectoryIndex index.php

CustomLog "C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress.local/logs/access.log" combined
ErrorLog "C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress.local/logs/error.log"

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress.local">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

##Second Virtual Host

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
  ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/modx"
  ServerName modx
  ServerAlias www.modx
  DirectoryIndex index.php

CustomLog "C:/xampp/htdocs/modx/logs/access.log" combined
ErrorLog "C:/xampp/htdocs/modx/logs/error.log"

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/modx">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>