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I am trying to create a virtual host on my localhost (XAMPP). Tried every combination out there, but I always get htdocs loaded instead of the specific folder

Here is the hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 devsnappy

Here is httpd-vhosts.conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot E:/xampp/htdocs/snappy/public
    ServerName devsnappy
    <Directory "E:/xampp/htdocs/snappy/public">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Any suggestions?

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Did you correctly restart httpd ? –  p1rox Jul 16 at 9:24

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Here is a guide to add vhost toi xampp

Seems that you miss something with the hosts file.

For example, say you had another Web site for ClientB. You’d add 127.0.0.1 clientB.local >in the hosts file and the C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf would look like this:

NameVirtualHost *
  <VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
  </VirtualHost>
  <VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\clientA\website"
    ServerName clientA.local
  <Directory "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\clientA\website">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\clientB\website"
    ServerName clientB.local
  <Directory "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\clientB\website">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And restart httpd

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I don't think this has anything to do with the hosts file. A better guess would be that he simply forgot to restart the apache server after modifying httdp-vhosts.conf. –  Krister Andersson Jul 16 at 9:28
 
i copy pasted the example from the guide ... changed the paths ... restarted and worked ... then changed back to my custom vhost name ... restarted and worked ... i do not exactly what the pb was (this guide was the first one i did) but if someone has the same pb as me it might help to follow this answer ... thanks all –  user2030809 Jul 16 at 9:46
 
+1 - Sorry, my mistake I though you were talking about the /etc/hosts file. –  Krister Andersson Jul 16 at 10:19

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