How to access a site on Codero without a domain name and without appending the username to the end

Question

Yesterday i have created a new site on my Codero Dedicated Server. and i have not assigned any domain name yet to the ip address.

Currently i am able to access my site with http://MySiteIpAddress/~username but i want to access it with only http://MySiteIpAddress/. Is there any way to do it. I don't know if that's possible by htaccess rules, so any hints are appreciated.

Answer 1

You want to setup a virtual host and point it to the folder you want.

See this other post for more details.

You need to do several steps in order to make this work.

1.) Update the hosts file. On Windows XP, you can find it under c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\. You should already see the first line from below, it takes care of your mentioned other project. - add the additional ones to make any requests to the mentioned virtual hosts routed back to your own machine.

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       foo-bar.com
127.0.0.1       abcdef.com
127.0.0.1       qwerty.com

2.) Update the vhosts file in Apache configuration. Under your XAMPP folder, add the following to apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf and if needed change the ports (i.e. if you use 8080 instead of port 80).

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot C:/xampplite/htdocs/foo-bar/
  ServerName www.foo-bar.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot C:/xampplite/htdocs/abcdef/
  ServerName www.abcdef.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot C:/xampplite/htdocs/qwerty/web/
  ServerName www.qwerty.com
</VirtualHost>

3.) Do a quick configuration check. Open {XAMPP-folder}\apache\conf\httpd.conf your file and make sure that the following part is not commented out by a preceeding # character:

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

4.) Restart XAMPP.

... and you should be all setup now. Your other project should be accessible at the URI you mentioned if you just put it under C:/xampplite/htdocs/my-project/.