[I need help] How to access my local website without..?

[TheSlider]

Hi All,

Please help me.
I installed xampp and local WordPress on my PC.
I can access this website only if I type "localhost/" before the domain.
How do I get rid of this "localhost/" so I will enter the URL and the site will go up?

Currently, if I am not writing the "localhost/" word before the URL then I get the error:
"Not Found.
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.54 (win64) openSSL/1.1p PHP/8.1.12 server at mywebsite.com Port 443"

So I must enter "localhost/mywebsite.com" and only then will the site go up.
I must remove that "localhost/".
How do I do that?

Thank you very much for any tip or direction.

[Altrea]

Hi,

you need to define a name based virtual host for mywebsite.com. you can do that in your /xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

just an example

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<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mywebsite.com"
    ServerName mywebsite.com
</VirtualHost>


Then you need to make sure that mywebsite.com can get resolved on your client pc, for example by editing your Windows hosts file.

And because you are using a CMS like wordpress, the new Domain needs to be configured in wordpress too. Best to install wordpress already from mywebsite.com url.

[TheSlider]

WOW sounds great solution.
I will have the chance to try this out only next week.

Really hope it will work and will save me lots of troubles.

[TheSlider]

Hi,

you need to define a name based virtual host for mywebsite.com. you can do that in your /xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

just an example

Code: Select all

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mywebsite.com"
    ServerName mywebsite.com
</VirtualHost>


Then you need to make sure that mywebsite.com can get resolved on your client pc, for example by editing your Windows hosts file.

And because you are using a CMS like wordpress, the new Domain needs to be configured in wordpress too. Best to install wordpress already from mywebsite.com url.

Hello,

I tried this and it doesn't work.
I still have to type 'localhost' host in the address bar to be able to run the local Wordpress website.
How do I avoid of typing the 'localhost'?

My goal is to be able to type in the address bar 'mydomain.com' and it will just run (after I edited the hosts file to point for 127.0.0.1 IP address).

[Altrea]

then you have forgotten something. It ist really just a combination of Windows HOSTS file, Apache virtual host and wordpress specific configuration.

You can find plenty of very detailed step by step tutorials on how to do so if searching for a combination of "Windows HOSTS virtualhost wordpress configuration". Just one example: https://www.cloudways.com/blog/configur ... wordpress/

[Nobbie]

Its not sufficient to edit httpd-vhosts.conf only. You also have to edit httpd.conf and remove the "#" (comment line) before the include statement for httpd-vhosts.conf. And finally restart Apache.