Direct url to the local domain

[iman007]

I am new with XAMPP. I store web sites folders in htdocs folder. I access to the local web site using url

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http://localhost/mywebsitefolder/index.php

Is there some way to access to the local web site using url:

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http://mywebsitefolder/index.php

Main issue with url

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http://mywebsitefolder/index.php

is that if I create a link with address

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<a href="/">sometext</a>

it links to the

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http://localhost/index.php

, which doesn't work(as my website url is

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http://localhost/mywebsitefolder/index.php

)
Link

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<a href="/">sometext</a>

works well on remote web servers (hosting).

[Nobbie]

Sorry, but could you explain this better?? I really do not understand, what you mean. Please do not use "...." (this is hard to understand) and please provide full URLs like http://localhost/mywebfolder/index.php

[iman007]

I am new on the forum and can't create links, only code.
All I want is to access to my local domain using

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 http://mywebsitefolder/index.php

url, not

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http://localhost/mywebsitefolder/index.php

[Nobbie]

There are different solutions for your problem. The quick & easy (but dirty) solution:

simply edit DocumentRoot in httpd.conf and change it from c:/xampp/htdocs to c:/xampp/htdocs/mywebfolder. Also adapt the following <Directory....> option to c:/xampp/htdocs/mywebfolder
If you do so, your project will appear under http://localhost/index.php (instead of http://localhost/mywebfolder/index.php), thats exactly what you need. Disadvantage: the Xampp Dashboard does not appear anymore.

The "clean" solution: define VirtualHosts for your Xampp Installation. You need two VirtualHosts, one is "localhost" (you need it only for the existing dashboard and/or phpmyadmin installation), the other is (for example) "mywebfolder" (but i dont like this name, because it sounds like "folder", but it is a servername instead). You should take another name, lets say "mywebserver". In the VirtualHost for "mywebserver" (see the Apache Documentation about VirtualHosts) define DocumentRoot as shown above c:/xampp/htdocs/mywebfolder. When the VirtualHosts are ready (and ok), you may reach your project via http://mywebserver/index.php

For the VirtualHost "mywebserver" you have to edit the Windows hosts file (see Wiki if you are unsure) and insert one line for this name:

127.0.0.1 mywebserver

If you dont do so, you will receive an error "unknown server" when you enter http://mywebserver in your browser.