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Virtual hosting is simple to set up in XP - but picky..

* I have a software folder where I keep all my downloaded SW - it got pretty big and I wanted to move it to another partition. To have it seen correctly in apache, I created a virtual host for it - this tutorial is a write-up of the solution that works on my home XP SP2 box with Apache 2.0.59.

1. Edit the hosts file ( windows XP: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ) - every virtual host has the IP 127.0.0.1
2. Add vhost entries to httpd.conf + set the correct NamedVirtualhost directive (see below)
3. Create a virtual host for the primary server - the first vhost entry is used as the server default.
4. reboot -or-
* stop Apache
* Disable your network connection
* Clear Mozilla/IE/Opera cache and close
* Enable network connection
* start Apache

`hosts` file entries:

#
# IP of the box on the home network - 192.168.0.20, and I use DynDNS for dyamic hosting
# separate entries are easier to read...
192.168.0.20  hostname1.tld
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       hostname1.tld
127.0.0.1       software.hostname1.tld
127.0.0.1       hostname2.tld
#

`httpd.conf` (or other file that is included by httpd.conf, such as vhosts.conf) virtual hosts entries:

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
# The original server
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot C:/WWW/htdocs
    ServerName hostname1.tld
</VirtualHost>
#
# Ran out of space ran C drive, relocated /software to D drive.
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot D:/WWW/htdocs/software
    ServerName software.hostname1.tld
</VirtualHost>
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot D://WWW/hostname2.tld/htdocs
    ServerName hostname2.tld
    ServerAlias *.hostname2.tld
</VirtualHost>