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Follow these steps to create and test the virtual host on your machine:

1.

First, you need to add

seophp.example.com

to the Windows

hosts

file. The following

line will tell Windows that all domain name resolution requests for

seophp.example.com

should be handled by the local machine instead of your configured DNS. Open the

hosts

file, which is located by default in

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

, and add

this line to it:

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 seophp.example.com

2.

Now create a new folder named

seophp

, which will be used for all the work you do in this

book. You might find it easiest to create it in the root folder (

C:\

), but you can create it any-

where else if you like.

3.

Finally, you need to configure a virtual host for

seophp.example.com

in Apache. Right now,

all requests to

http://localhost/

and

http://seophp.example.com/

are handled by

Apache, and both yield the same result. You want requests to

http://seophp.example.com/

to be served from your newly created folder,

seophp

. This way, you can work with this book

without interfering with the existing applications on your web server.

To create the virtual host, you need to edit the Apache configuration file. In typical Apache

installations there is a single configuration file named

httpd.conf

. XAMPP ships with more

configuration files, which handle different configuration areas. To add a virtual host, add the

following lines to

xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

. (If you installed XAMPP

with the default options, the

xampp

folder should be under

\Program Files

.)

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