WAMP or XAMPP server lets our sites to browse by using the url: http ://localhost . For eg: http ://localhost/mysite . But we may need to test out environments which would require different domains, like http://local.server.com. For this, we need to configure the virtual hosts file of our apache server. These are the steps we need to configure vitual host on windows os: 1. Open vhosts.conf file. Location: xampp/apache/conf/extra 2. Add the following code at the end of the file. <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "D:\xampp\htdocs" ServerName localhost </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost local.server.com:80> <!-- this is the vitual host --> DocumentRoot "D:\xampp\htdocs" ServerName local.server.com <Directory "D:\xampp\htdocs"> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </Virtu...
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