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Chapter 1: You: Programmer and Search Engine Marketer

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>

DocumentRoot “C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs”

ServerName localhost

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>

DocumentRoot C:/seophp/

ServerName seophp.example.com

<Directory C:/seophp/>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

4.

To make sure

httpd-vhosts.conf

gets processed when Apache starts, open

xampp\apache\

conf\httpd.conf

and make sure this line, located somewhere near the end of the file, isn’t

commented:

# Virtual hosts

include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

5.

Restart Apache for the new configuration to take effect. The easiest way to restart Apache is to

open the XAMPP Control Panel, and use it to stop and then start the Apache service.

In case you run into trouble, the first place to check is the Apache error log file. In the default XAMPP

installation, this is

xampp\apache\logs\error.log

.

6.

To test your new virtual host, create a new file named

test.php

in your

seophp

folder, and

type this code in it:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

7.

Then load

http://seophp.example.com/test.php

and expect to see a page like the one in

Figure 1-6.

This way you’ve also tested that your PHP installation is working correctly.

In order for

http://localhost/

to continue working after you create a virtual host,

you need to define and configure it as a virtual host as well — this explains why

we’ve included it in the vhosts file. If you have any important applications working

under

http://localhost/

, make sure they continue to work after you restart

Apache at the end of this exercise.

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