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Hi,

i've installed xampp and tried to set a virtualhost in httdpd.conf like that

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<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin webmaster@lausanne-massage.ch
    DocumentRoot c:\xampp\htdocs\lausanne-massage\
    ServerName www.lausanne-massage.ch
    ServerAlias www.lausanne-massage.ch
    ErrorLog @rel_logfiledir@/www.lausanne-massage.ch-error_log
    CustomLog @rel_logfiledir@/www.lausanne-massage.chaccess_log common
</VirtualHost>

the problem is apache won't start, telling me "DocumentRoot takes one argument, Root directory of the document tree"

could someone help me please ?
thank you

Remove your entry from the httpd.conf file then save the file and try and start Apache again and the error should go away and Apache should now start.


Now use the file specific for this job C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file.

Try adding this (copy and paste perhaps):

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NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName lausanne-massage.ch
ServerAlias www.lausanne-massage.ch
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/lausanne-massage"
ServerAdmin webmaster@lausanne-massage.ch
ErrorLog logs/lausanne-massage_error.log
CustomLog logs/lausanne-massage_access.log common
LogLevel error
</VirtualHost>

Save the file and try and start Apache again.

Go here
http://hexillion.com/co/DomainDossier.aspx
to test your site from the Internet (no need to ask a friend to test it) by adding lausanne-massage.ch in the text box and then ticking all the boxes - the 'Service Scan' will tell you if your site is accessible from the Internet and when the server is working it will give the server's details.

At the time of this reply a Service Scan gives 'connection refused' so check your firewall/router is configured correctly and that your ISP allows a web server on port 80.

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    ErrorLog @rel_logfiledir@/www.lausanne-massage.ch-error_log
    CustomLog @rel_logfiledir@/www.lausanne-massage.chaccess_log common

"@rel_logfiledir@": The paths to the logfiles must be exists and can't be placeholders.

thank you izzy,
you're very kind : now lausanne-massage.ch works but www.lausanne-massage.ch doesn't :/
did i do something wrong ?

have a nice day, thank you again

http://www.lausanne-massage.ch works for me in fact it loads in this file:
http://www.lausanne-massage.ch/lausanne-massage.swf

So how have you tested it?

If you check the link I gave you and type www.lausanne-massage.ch in the text box of Domain Dossier it returns this:

Domain Dossier wrote:Address lookup
canonical name lausanne-massage.ch.
aliases www.lausanne-massage.ch
addresses 91.121.83.191

As well as this:

Domain Dossier wrote:Service scan
FTP - 21 Error: ConnectionRefused
SMTP - 25 Error: ConnectionRefused
HTTP - 80 HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:55:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.9
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Location: http://www.lausanne-massage.ch/lausanne-massage.swf
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
POP3 - 110 Error: ConnectionRefused
IMAP - 143 Error: ConnectionRefused

So as far as I can tell your virtualhost configuration is working just fine.

Good luck.