Setting Up Virtual hosts for XAMPP on windows

Question

XAMPP for Windows 1.8.2 PHP 5.4, Operating System : windows xp

I am using username and passowrd on XAMPP

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 127.0.0.1 hindustans.local 127.0.0.1 read.local

E:\My Projects\wesites\read index.html

httpd-vhosts.conf

    <Directory "E:/My Projects/wesites/read">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>

  <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
  </VirtualHost>
   <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "E:/My Projects/wesites/read"
    ServerName read
    Options +Indexes
    </VirtualHost>

read.local works fine with c:\xampp\htdocs But read.local doesn't work with E:\My Projects\wesites\read\index.html

I brief want to run my project from E:\My Projects\wesites\read

Can you access your folder? Do you have permission to do that? Do you have an index file? Also, why do you want to host the website on Windows XP??? — Lajos Arpad, Oct 13 '13 at 14:17
Refer this its work for me -- https://stackoverflow.com/a/2658510/13248471 — Shivam, Aug 20 '20 at 05:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 16:39

You need match the ServerName to the address you have in hosts and give it permission

<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "E:/My Projects/wesites/read" ServerName read.local <Directory "E:/My Projects/wesites/read" > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>

then try to access the site at read.local.

More info here

Setting Up Virtual hosts for XAMPP on windows

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