I’ll really appreciate a little help with a problem I have been struggling with all day long… I installed WordPress locally using WAMP and everything worked fine. I created a folder inside C:/wamp/www an named it wordpress.
I was able to access localhost only by typing localhost on the browser’s URL and I accessed the site typing localhost/wordpress/ BUT when I decided to install another wordpress website I faced a problem. I created a second folder inside www, named it joanaweb and followed the steps of this tutorial: http://www.marolinedesign.com/tutorials/how-to-install-more-than-one-wordpress-site-on-your-local-wamp-server/ PLUS I removed the # before Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf located on httpd.conf which wasn’t mentioned in the tutorial.
After this the first website was accessed as before while the second by typing joanaweb….BUT i couldn’t access localhost anymore 🙁 I got just a 403 Error. In this website http://www.apptools.com/phptools/virtualhost.php at the end of the article I found a solution but it isn’t working for me :/ They suggested using:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot C:Apachehtdocs
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
Since I have htdocs located on another folder I used this code on httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.9/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
ErrorLog "logs/localhost.log"
CustomLog "logs/localhost.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/joanaweb"
ServerName joanaweb
ServerAlias joanaweb
ErrorLog "logs/joanaweb.log"
CustomLog "logs/joanaweb.log" common
</VirtualHost>
What am I doing wrong??
Also this is all the code inside my hosts file(after the comments):
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost wordpress
127.0.0.1 localhost joanaweb
127.0.0.1 localhost lifestylepro
127.0.0.1 localhost xxxxxTranslations
And this is the code inside httpd-vhosts.conf :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/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 "c:/Apache24/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>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
AllowOverride All
<IfDefine APACHE24>
Require local
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHE24>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</IfDefine>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/wordpress"
ServerName wordpress
ServerAlias wordpress
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/wordpress">
AllowOverride All
<IfDefine APACHE24>
Require local
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHE24>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</IfDefine>
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/wordpress.log"
CustomLog "logs/wordpress.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/joanaweb"
ServerName joanaweb
ServerAlias joanaweb
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/joanaweb">
AllowOverride All
<IfDefine APACHE24>
Require local
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHE24>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</IfDefine>
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/joanaweb.log"
CustomLog "logs/joanaweb.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/lifestylepro"
ServerName lifestylepro
ServerAlias lifestylepro
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/lifestylepro">
AllowOverride All
<IfDefine APACHE24>
Require local
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHE24>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</IfDefine>
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/lifestylepro.log"
CustomLog "logs/lifestylepro.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/xxxxxTranslations"
ServerName xxxxxTranslations
ServerAlias www.xxxxxTranslations
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/xxxxxTranslations">
AllowOverride All
<IfDefine APACHE24>
Require local
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHE24>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</IfDefine>
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/xxxxxTranslations.log"
CustomLog "logs/xxxxxTranslations.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Ok first get rid of these 2 section of
httpd-vhosts.conf, these 2 bits are just what Apache release as sample code to get you started and are irrelevant to WAMPServer as they point to locations that are not used by WAMPServer.So delete these 2 definitions
And then we come to your Virtual Hosts definitions, as you are using Apache v2.4.x I will remove the Apache versions checks and just use Apache 2.4 syntax to make it easier to understand.
Now there is the HOSTS file. This needs to include the ip address for both IPC4 i.e. 127.0.0.1
and the ip address for IPV6 i.e. ::1
So change your HOSTS file to this, removing the unnecessary duplication and adding IPV6 references :-
Now to make sure these are loaded into the dnscache, launch a command window using the “Run as Administrator” option and run these 2 commands.
Alternatively, just reboot, to make these current.
Now restart Apache, so these changes are picked up, and try your vhosts.