How to enable Virtual Host on Xampp for Laravel?

Question

I have XAMPP running on Windows 7 Pro. I am trying to setup a Virtual Host so that when I use \"dev.app\" as a domain I get directly to my public folder of laravel installat

Answer 1

The hosts file should look like this so that it can be found on the IPV4 and IPV6 networks

127.0.0.1  localhost dev.app
::1        localhost dev.app

If you are using Apache 2.4.x this line in httpd-vhosts.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80

is no longer required or allowed for Apache 2.4.

The vhost file should look like this, you mixed Apache 2.2 and 2.4 syntax and while either is allowed as long as you have mod_access_compat activated, you should not mix them and the 2.4 syntax is better. You also missed a few other useful bits and pieces

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "F:/xampp/htdocs/"
    ServerAdmin admin@localhost
    ServerName localhost

    <Directory "F:/xampp/htdocs/">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride all
       Require local
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "F:/xampp/htdocs/dev/public"
    ServerAdmin admin@localhost
    ServerName dev.app
    ServerAlias www.dev.app

    <Directory "F:/xampp/htdocs/dev/public">
       AllowOverride All
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

       Require local
       # if you want access from other pc's on your local network
       #Require ip 192.168.1
       # Only if you want the world to see your site
       #Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

Use laragon server instead of XAMPP. One of useful features of Laragon is Auto Virutal Hosts. learn more about Pretty URLs with laragon here

Answer 3

`open C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf, locate at

Virtual hosts

#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, remove # in this line, save file, Restart server`