Setting up a virtual host on XAMPP on Mac

Question

I am trying to set up a virtualhost on my apple mac on localhost. The server is provided by XAMPP, which bundles Apache/MySQL/PHP in one bundle.

Here is what I have done

Answer 1

Have you told Apache to actually use name-based virtual hosting?

# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

I don't believe it's enabled by default in Xampp on Mac.

Answer 2

On xampp you need to edit 3 files to setup virtual hosts

the /etc/hosts and /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf as you did.

But also you need to edit /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf to include the http-vhosts.conf

make sure you have uncommented this line

# Virtual hosts
Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

EDIT

Have you tried to add this lines

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Just before the

AllowOverride All

Answer 3

Try leaving the the setting for "localhost" at the end of the file "httpd-vhosts.conf", i.e.:

#
# Virtual Hosts
#
...

# others vhost
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
</VirtualHost>

# localhost
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"
    <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes execCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow From All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#end of httpd-vhosts.conf file

Worked for me, greetings!