How to setup domain in your PC

Sep 24, 2017 | Software Development

In Wamp, you normally place your project files in www folder to run them. In Wamp, you normally place your project files in www folder to run them. But now, you want to organize them in a directory other than www folder, may be in git repository folder. And you also want to access it just like you do using public domain.

This method will help you to do this task.

Steps

Following are the steps to setup domain in your pc for development and testing of PHP based application.

1. Open file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add this line

127.0.0.1 yourdomain.loc

2. Open file httpd.conf and activate module “vhost_alias_module” if not activated.

3. Decide VHOST FOLDER where you want to save vhost configurations in your drive and add it like this line

IncludeOptional "[VHOST FOLDER]/*"

4. Create vhost config file in VHOST FOLDER and setup following lines

<Directory "[PROJECT FOLDER]">
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
	AllowOverride all
		Order Deny,Allow
	Allow from all
	Require all granted
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName yourdomain.loc
	ServerAlias yourdomain.loc
	DocumentRoot "[PROJECT FOLDER]"
</VirtualHost>

5. Restart the Wamp Apache only.

6. Now access the domain “http://yourdomain.loc/” in the browser.

7. Enjoy Coding.