Virtualhosts won't work (Chrome says "Ooops! Could not...")

[alexstarbuck]

Hello everyone,

my first post so please be gentle . I'm just learning about web development and am already struggling with just the basics set-up.

MacBook Air
OSX 10.8.2
XAMPP 1.8.3-2
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, all the latest versions.

Everything seems to work when I use "htdocs" as root folder to test my php code (EXTREMELY basic level still). Quickly I learned that this way I can only have one site (and one index.php file which loads on entering "localhost" if I'm not mistaken). I decided to change this as I learned about VirtualHosts feature and changed the directory where Apache looks for files.

1. I edited httpd.conf file
2. then httpd-vhosts.conf file
3. and finally hosts.
4. restarted apache
5. started Chrome, in address bar I wrote: localhost - nothing. "Oops! Google Chrome could not find localhost" I also tried http://probniphp.local - "Oops! Google Chrome could not find localhost"

Any idea what went wrong? Below is the code I tinkered with:

httpd.conf file

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DocumentRoot "/Users/EdChigliak/Websites"
<Directory "/Users/EdChigliak/Websites">

httpd-vhosts.conf (commented out 2 dummy hosts and added my custom one) file

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#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/docs/dummy-host.example.com"
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"
# CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common
#</VirtualHost>

#<VirtualHost *:80>
#ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
#DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/docs/dummy-host2.example.com"
#ServerName dummy-host2.example.com
#ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error_log"
#CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access_log" common
#</VirtualHost>
#localhost

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs"
<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes execCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow From All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# My custom host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName probniphp.local
DocumentRoot "/Users/EdChigliak/Websites/probniphp"
<Directory "/Users/EdChigliak/Websites/probniphp">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow From All
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/mysite.local-error_log"
</VirtualHost>

hosts file

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#Virtual Hosts 127.0.0.1 probniphp.local

Thank you all in advance!

[JJ_Tagy]

hosts file

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#Virtual Hosts 127.0.0.1 probniphp.local

If this is truly how your hosts file looks, you will have problems. The # will comment out the entire line making it invisible to the OS. I will have to double check OSX, but definitely Windows would have that problem.

[alexstarbuck]

Taggy thank you for the reply!

I'm sorry, im still new to the forum so I am probably not using all the features correctly - I should have put it on a separate line. Pound sign "#" is in front of Virtual hosts but 127.0.0.1 and the rest is on a separate line so there shouldn't be any problem

Do you know what else could be an issue?

[Nobbie]

Probably your Apache did not start or did not recognize the VirtualHosts, due to an error. Look into the error log, it should tell you what has gone wrong.

[alexstarbuck]

This is what the log says (I cleared all old messages so this is from today, after I re-did all the changes in config files):

Mon Mar 03 15:26:04.032304 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 44382] AH01906: RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:04.032515 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 44382] AH01909: RSA certificate configured for www.example.com:443 does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:04.034604 2014] [suexec:notice] [pid 44382] AH01232: suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/suexec)
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:05.060928 2014] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 44383] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:06.000761 2014] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 44383] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:06.069970 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 44383] AH01906: RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:06.070016 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 44383] AH01909: RSA certificate configured for www.example.com:443 does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:06.072677 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 44383] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Unix) PHP/5.5.6 OpenSSL/1.0.1e mod_perl/2.0.8-dev Perl/v5.16.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Mar 03 15:26:06.072741 2014] [core:notice] [pid 44383] AH00094: Command line: '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/httpd -E /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/error_log -D SSL -D PHP'


I can't make any sense from this as I only understand some basics so any help is appreciated

[alexstarbuck]

Ummm.... now I think I've messed it all up and am thinking of de-installing and re-installing XAMPP. Isnt there a simpler solution to get the whole thing working?