Subdomains for localhost
A handy trick I just learned: you can use your hosts file to create subdomains of localhost.
For example, I have WordPress and Drupal both running on my machine for local web development testing. I used to access one at http://localhost/wp and the other at http://localhost/drupal. This works just fine, in general, but can lead to some awkwardness with things like .htaccess files and relative links when I move the site I’m developing to a real server.
By editing the hosts file, though, I can access my development sites at http://wp.localhost/ and http://drupal.localhost/, making it a little easier to test, migrate, etc.
In Windows (XP and Vista), you can find your hosts file in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc directory. Add a couple of lines to the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 wp.localhost 127.0.0.1 drupal.localhost
And create virtual hosts in your Apache httpd.conf to point those domains to the correct directories. E.g.:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot D:\xampp\htdocs\drupal
ServerName drupal.localhost
</VirtualHost>
are you sure that its working fine?, for me its not working after restarting the Apache!
Yoosuf | 2009-05-27 01:12 | Permalink
it’s not working for me too
Toxic brain | 2009-06-26 03:30 | Permalink
but
how to create subdomain of subdomain on localhost
like
sajid.webspot.localhost,
nasir.webspot.localhost,
etc….
Muhammad Sajid | 2009-11-19 02:31 | Permalink
@Muhammad Sajid: You do that the same way. Just make a new entry in your
hostsfile andhttpd.conffile for each new sub-sub-domain. Example:and
<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot D:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress1 ServerName example1.wp.localhost </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot D:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress2 ServerName example2.wp.localhost </VirtualHost>Jonathan Brinley | 2009-11-19 08:56 | Permalink