Apache: Virtual Host configuration

Question

As i tried to configure my virtual host in apache. I put something like this,

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/gift
   ServerName gift.loc  
</VirtualHost>

And in my hosts file i put something like this,

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       gift.loc

And i run it on the browser,

http://gift.loc - is fine

But when i tried using this,

http://localhost/othersite - can't found

Do i missed somehting to configure? ANy ideas...

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

You need a VirtualHost entry for every host you want apache to handle. The first one in the config file will be used as the default if no other VirtualHosts match the request.

For example if we have:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/gift
   ServerName gift.loc  
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot /example/htdocs/gift
   ServerName example.com  
</VirtualHost>

A request for foobar.org will get handled by the gift.loc virtual host.

Answer 2

you need to put localhost in the vhosts.conf

    NameVirtualHost *:80

    <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/
       ServerName localhost
    </VirtualHost>

    <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot /xampp/htdocs/gift
       ServerName gift.loc  
    </VirtualHost>

This works fine (Make sure you restart apache). If you need to check your configuration you can (on linux at least) run httpd -S.