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Why I can't set a vhost for this PHP website on my XAMPP?

I am finding the following problem trying to create a vhost for a PHP website that I have into XAMPP.

So basically this is where is the index.php file of my website is deployed: C:\xampp\htdocs\MyProject-Panda

Then into the C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf** file I have declared 2 vhost:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/HotelRegistration/public"
    ServerName laravel.dev
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/MyProject-Panda"
    ServerName panda.dev
</VirtualHost>

(the first one works fine, the second one no).

Finally into the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file I have:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       laravel.dev
127.0.0.1       panda.dev

So I am enabling the panda.dev domain on my local machine.

The problem is that when I open the panda.dev domain into my browser it is automatically "rewrited" into http://www.panda.dev/ and it says that can't contact the server.

Why? What could be the problem? How can I try to solve this situation?

Solution

  • You should use .local for local sites. .dev must not be interpreted correctly by browsers, even if you have hosts record.

    In this case I think problem is - you have some .htaceess in C:/xampp/htdocs/MyProject-Panda with redirect to WWW version. Windows hosts does not work for subdomains automaticly (as www.panda.dev is subdomain of panda.dev). You eighter has to remove this redirection or add 127.0.0.1 www.panda.dev record to your hosts file.