Let’s create a virtual host in windows… on xampp or wamp or ampps

Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc for host file.

At first, you have to reset the permission to edit and save the host file. Here is the process

• Right click on the ‘host’ file then select ‘Properties’
• You will get a new window, click on the ‘Security’ tab
• Select the User that you are logged in from ‘Group or User names’ box
• Now hit the ‘Edit’ button and you will get another window
• Select the ‘Users’ that you are already logged in
• Allow ‘Full control’ to select all permissions
• Now Apply and click ok
• And now nobody stops you to save the host file 🙂

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Create and access multiple ports for Apache on Amazon EC2(aka AWSEC2) or DigitalOcean

httpd.conf file loc: D:\xampp\apache\conf

uncomment “Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf” if it is commented.

httpd-vhosts.conf file location: D:\xampp\apache\conf\extra

Lastly, need to restart apache server

? How to Enable SSL in Xampp (Localhost)

Way one:

Configure your SSL in xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhost.conf like this:

<VirtualHost *:443>

DocumentRoot D:/xampp/htdocs/yourProject

ServerName yourProject.whatever

SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile “conf/ssl.crt/server.crt”

SSLCertificateKeyFile “conf/ssl.key/server.key”

</VirtualHost>

Way Two:

If you need SSL in more than one project, it’s better to change it in the httpd-ssl.conf

Easy steps:

1. D:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf”
2. Search ‘DocumentRoot’ text.
3. Change DocumentRoot

DocumentRoot “D:/xampp/htdocs” to

DocumentRoot “D:/xampp/htdocs/project name”.

And lastly, restart the apache server.

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