XAMPP 7.2.4 Virtual Host
Posted: 23. April 2018 16:28
I'm uninstalling XAMPP in favor of a competing package for three main reasons (this is not merely an "unless you can help me", it's a "you devs will fix this before I come back to XAMPP, ever"). I'm so sick of struggling with it, that I'm just done. But if nobody ever says anything, you won't know what to fix. It's not that I wish anything bad on XAMPP, it's just that if devs are going to modify the way the server works, they ALSO have to modify the documentation that goes with it, or they're being bad and lazy devs (and not lazy in the good, efficient way).
I made a new account this morning, just to post this, because there's no direct email to just send to the devs. I struggled less with setting up MY OWN STACK and got a virtual host running on that without any issue, in about 3 hours. But I don't like that, because if I screw up settings, I have to reinstall multiple packages instead of just one.
Way to make it secure! It's now so secure it's unusable.
- Lack of documentation on how to set up a virtual host correctly. It's not in the actual Apache docs, it's not in the local (modified) docs, and the information provided is outdated.
- Lack of capability to simply set up a development machine with a locally-accessible virtual host (how I keep my projects working so that they easily transfer to a live web server when it's time).
- Lack of any automated "here, click this and put in some information" kinds of things that MOST competing products now have, with regard to virtual hosts.
I made a new account this morning, just to post this, because there's no direct email to just send to the devs. I struggled less with setting up MY OWN STACK and got a virtual host running on that without any issue, in about 3 hours. But I don't like that, because if I screw up settings, I have to reinstall multiple packages instead of just one.
Way to make it secure! It's now so secure it's unusable.