Virtual host doesn't work on WAMP and virtual host url causes to download a file in browser

Question

I have a strange problem in accessing to virtual host in WAMP.

I have defined my virtual host (it calls mvc.dev) by defining in server configuration page in wampserver. Steps are exact that I have explained in the following:

1- first, going to server configuration page and select Add a virtual host

2- As index.php in my project is in C:\wamp64\www\mvcdev\public path, so I fill out related fields for my virtual host and then start to creation of virtual host.

3- It is created correctly and wamp server wants to restart DNS manually. I restarted it from wamp server menu like this:

4- After restarting, I check localhost page. It shows that mvc.dev is created correctly without any problem

5- And the problem occurs here, when I click on mvc.dev or type it in address bar of browser to access my virtual host, it causes to download a file instead of loading index.php file. I'm so frustrated about this issue and I don't know how can I solve this. Why does it cause to download hex file instead of executing URL?

This file is a hex file and every time that I put mvc.dev in url, it will start to download this file

For your information, I have also tested it by defining virtual host manually. I put related codes in httpd-vhosts.conf and then define mvc.dev in host and then restart DNS, but the result is the same with thing that I have explained before and I can not access to my virtual host at all. You can see it in the following:

configuration in host file:

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#   127.0.0.1       localhost
#   ::1             localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1   mvc.dev
::1 mvc.dev

configuration of httpd-vhosts.conf:

#
# Virtual Hosts
#

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www
    <Directory  "c:/wamp64/www/">
        Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mvc.dev
    DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www/mvcdev/public
    <Directory  "c:/wamp64/www/mvcdev/public/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require local
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

How can I solve this problem?

Note: I also checked this one by one but I couldn't solve my problem: project-links-do-not-work-on-wamp-server

The .htaccess file is

# Remove the question mark from the request but maintain the query string
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase / 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

The code in index.php is

echo 'Request URL is: '.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; 
//require '../core/Router.php'; 
require "../vendor/autoload.php"; 
$router = new Core\Router(); 
$router->add('/','HomeController@index');

I see you have a `.htaccess` file in the DocumentRoot folder! What is in this `.htaccess` file? — RiggsFolly, Nov 25 '17 at 17:31
You should really not give `Require all granted` to your localhost Virtual Host — RiggsFolly, Nov 25 '17 at 17:33
This is for accepting query string without typing index.php: # Remove the question mark from the request but maintain the query string RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA] — Mehdi Soltani, Nov 25 '17 at 17:51
One thing, I check it without .htaccess file, but the result is the same — Mehdi Soltani, Nov 25 '17 at 17:52
Require part is added by wamp (when I create it like something that I have explained above) — Mehdi Soltani, Nov 25 '17 at 17:54
it has only several lines of codes only for testing a class: echo 'Request URL is: '.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; //require '../core/Router.php'; require "../vendor/autoload.php"; $router = new Core\Router(); $router->add('/','HomeController@index'); — Mehdi Soltani, Nov 25 '17 at 17:57
I tested it. The result is the same before. Do you need to extra information? if you want, I can add them in the end of my question — Mehdi Soltani, Nov 25 '17 at 18:08
yes, of course, I also check this by only but it didn't work at all — Mehdi Soltani, Nov 27 '17 at 18:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '19 at 09:23

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I had the same issue and I found out that Chrome requires any *.dev to be access via HTTPS and any chromium base browser will negate localhost access to it. Check this link

Change the website extension to something else. That worked for me. For example instead of example.com use example.tst.

answered Aug 19 '19 at 09:23

raphie

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worked for me in Mozilla firefox Thanks a tone @raphie – Sonal Khunt Feb 04 '22 at 14:42

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