Virtual hosts help for a noob

[Takster]

Hi there.

I have installed the latest xampp on my xp machine, i have no problems other then the fact i am a totally new to the whole 'virtual host' thing, i kinda got stuck and was hoping someone can tell me what i am doing wrong.

I followed a tutorial from the tutorial site, and tried to learn what i can from the various posts on the subject, i have one virtual host running okay, but how to enable more...this is where im stuck.

I want to have as many sites on localhost/virtualhost as possible, no outside internet connections or www.links, just all localhost testing websites for now.

I have my vhosts.conf like this:

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# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#

NameVirtualHost *:80

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

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost.main.com
ServerAlias localhost.main.com *.localhost.main.com
ServerAdmin admin@domain1.co.uk
DocumentRoot C:/srv/www/yourdomain
<Directory "C:/srv/www/yourdomain">
Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymLinks
Options +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost.main2.com
ServerAlias localhost.main2.com *.localhost.main2.com
ServerAdmin admin@domain2.co.uk
DocumentRoot C:/srv/www/yourdomain2
<Directory "C:/srv/www/yourdomain2">
Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymLinks
Options +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

My 'hosts' file:

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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 yourdomain
127.0.0.1 yourdomain2


httpd.conf:

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<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

I can access localhost.main.com no problem, but how to setup the next virtual host has confused me i thought you make localhost.main2.com
or something similar??? thanks for any advice.

[Izzy]

Maybe this is the issue.

ServerName localhost.main.com
127.0.0.1 yourdomain

Maybe it should be:
ServerName localhost.main.com
127.0.0.1 localhost.main.com

Or maybe this:
ServerName main.com
ServerAlias *.main.com
127.0.0.1 main.com


Also a small point but enclose all your paths in " "

"C:/xampp/xampp/htdocs"
"C:/srv/www/yourdomain"
etc.etc.

IMHO this is reducing the security of your server:
httpd.conf:

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Code:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

This a very restrictive default and should not be changed.

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<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

You have done the correct thing in your Virtual Host Container:

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<Directory "C:/srv/www/yourdomain">
Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymLinks
Options +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

[Takster]

Maybe this is the issue.

ServerName localhost.main.com
127.0.0.1 yourdomain

Maybe it should be:
ServerName localhost.main.com
127.0.0.1 localhost.main.com

Or maybe this:
ServerName main.com
ServerAlias *.main.com
127.0.0.1 main.com


Also a small point but enclose all your paths in " "

"C:/xampp/xampp/htdocs"
"C:/srv/www/yourdomain"
etc.etc.

IMHO this is reducing the security of your server:
httpd.conf:

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Code:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

This a very restrictive default and should not be changed.

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<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

You have done the correct thing in your Virtual Host Container:

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<Directory "C:/srv/www/yourdomain">
Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymLinks
Options +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I followed your advice...and i had 100% success. It was the host file settings, yes.

Many thanks for the fast reply and helping me out.