enable Localhost/site

[doomish]

Hi All,
how do you make xampp latest version allow to have websites running on : localhost/sitename in earlier versions it used to work fine with no hassle, now i have to create virtual hosts per website.

any help appreciated.

[Nobbie]

now i have to create virtual hosts per website

No, this is simply wrong.

[doomish]

Any idea what might be wrong?
im gonna reinstall xampp once again, delete all the app/files and see how it goes

[Nobbie]

Any idea what might be wrong?

How should i? No description, no error message, no nothing, not even one byte. Onyl a false clue.

I dont have the slightest idea what you are speaking about.

[webmaestro]

It looks like the userdir stuff reverted to httpd defaults...

This is a bit of a waste of time, so it would be *really* nice if our http://ApacheFriends.org would make this the DEFAULT for Mac OS X. I don't know where to submit a 'PATCH' for this, so the bottom of this post has my 'PATCH'...

This post has the fix:

https://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=58599&sid=2058c6ca8f77de9ae9ebf4f086b07d59#p216859

Solved!

This worked for me:
open the file

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sudo vi /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf

uncomment line 482

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# User home directories
Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf


save and close the file

open the file

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sudo vi /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

replace line 11 with

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UserDir Sites

replace line 16 with

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<Directory "/Users/*/Sites/">

save and close the file

restart Apache
that's all!

BAD CODE in /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf:

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# User home directories
#Include etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf


GOOD CODE to apply in /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf (uncomment this line):

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# User home directories
Include etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf


And here's the 'patch' for /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

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# Settings for user home directories
#
# Required module: mod_authz_core, mod_authz_host, mod_userdir

#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.  Note that you must also set
# the default access control for these directories, as in the example below.
#
#UserDir public_html
UserDir Sites

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory "/Users/*/Sites">
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    Require method GET POST OPTIONS
</Directory>


[webmaestro]

It sure would be great if someone at ApacheFriends.org would apply the above patch!

It's been broken in XAMPP for years...