WAMP server not running after enabling httpd-vhosts.conf

Question

I tried enabling Virtual Host on my WAMP installation, but WAMP server will not run if I enable http-vhosts.conf, and the icon remains orange.

Here is my hosts file:

Answer 1

To determine the exact line on which the error is occurring, take the following steps:

1. Go to start menu
2. type "cmd"
3. press enter
4. paste the following C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\bin\httpd.exe

Note: You may need to tweak the apache2.2.22 portion of the path according your local version of Apache.

Answer 2

You just need to change it like as this: everything will be OK.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
#    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
    ServerName localhost
#    ErrorLog "logs/localhost-error.log"
#    CustomLog "logs/localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
#    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/test"
#    ServerName test.localhost
</VirtualHost>

If somebody has error of Directory, he may need to modify it like below:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
#    DocumentRoot 'c:\wamp\www\media_weber_edu\public'
     ServerName media.weber.dev
#    <Directory 'c:\wamp\www\media_weber_edu\public'>
#        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
#       AllowOverride all
#    <\Directory>
</VirtualHost>

notes: Apache does not allow multiple <Directory> arguments!

Answer 3

OK I feel this my duty to put this...

I too went on a rampage of checking forms and doing things like

Listen *:80 & NameVirtualHost *:80 but found that this was not necessary, the default settings were fine for me.

the problem started when I tried to put in my vhost declaration

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    DocumentRoot 'c:\wamp\www\media_weber_edu\public'
    ServerName media.weber.dev
    <Directory 'c:\wamp\www\media_weber_edu\public'>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride all
    <\Directory>
</VirtualHost>

here lied the problem

<\Directory> vs </Directory>

A huge help to finding this was running C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\bin\httpd.exe

this gave me an error like this

httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 469 of C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 42 of C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf: Expected </\\Directory> but saw </VirtualHost>

So this may not be the exact problem but I hope this will help those in the future. So take a deep breath... glue the hair back on your head... its going to be ok :)