getting virtual host working accross network under xampp

[spudhead]

I've got xampp running on my local (Win7) dev machine.

I'm using virtual hosts to get various dev sites running under that. So relevant bits from my apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf look like:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost dev.newsite.com>
ServerAdmin me@localhost
DocumentRoot "C:\dev\newsite\build"
ServerName dev.newsite.com
ServerAlias dev.newsite.com
<Directory "C:\dev\newsite\build">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And the relevant entry in my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 dev.newsite.com

This works fine, from the Win7 machine.

I've also created a virtual machine running WinXP (on the same Win7 machine), so I can test on IE8. I want to access dev.newsite.com from it.

I've commented out the following in httpd-xamp.conf, so the virtual machine can at least see my xampp apache. Probably not the safest but this is all on an internal office network:

#<LocationMatch "^/(?i?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.0/8
# ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
#</LocationMatch>

And I've added an entry to the hosts file on the WinXP virtual machine, pointing dev.newsite.com at the network IP address of the Win7 machine:

192.168.154.168 dev.newsite.com

That's got me nearly there. But if I start up the WinXP virtual machine and point IE8 at http://dev.newsite.com - I don't get the dev site.

I get the xampp 'welcome' page. In fact, it's redirecting me to:
http://dev.newsite.com/xampp/

What's doing this, and how can I stop it?

[Altrea]

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

Your VHosts just listening to Requests from the local loopback.
If none VHost matches, the first VHost takes effect because thats your default VHost.

[spudhead]

Ok, so... I've amended my httpd-vhosts.conf so it now reads like:

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NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
NameVirtualHost 192.168.154.168:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
   DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
   ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost dev.newsite.com>
   ServerAdmin me@localhost
   DocumentRoot "C:\dev\newsite\build"
   ServerName dev.newsite.com
   ServerAlias dev.newsite.com
   <Directory "C:\dev\newsite\build">
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

But from the virtual machine, http://dev.newsite.com still redirects me to http://dev.newsite.com/xampp

I've tried commenting out the first virtual host entry and the related NameVirtualHost line:

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#NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
#<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
#   DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs
#   ServerName localhost
#</VirtualHost>


This had no effect - I'm still getting redirected to an xampp subdirectory... somewhere.

I don't even know which line is doing it....

[Sharley]

Try this and see if it gets you moving forward:

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NameVirtualHost *:80

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

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev.newsite.com
ServerAdmin me@localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/dev/newsite/build"
<Directory "C:/dev/newsite/build" >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 dev.newsite.com

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<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/8
    Allow from 192.168.0.0/16
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

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192.168.154.168 dev.newsite.com

I think you will know what goes where.

[spudhead]

Not only has it got everything working, but it's clarified a couple of things too. Thank you very much

[Sharley]

Your most welcome, good luck.