Just an FYI– I fought this for a while and then realized that my /’s should be a \ because i was in windows… all is well now

Commenting on your FYI, I did this in windows as well and had no problem leaving the /’s as /’s.

I also use virtual host, but despite the “Deny from all” the virtual host is all open to every one.
Seems that apache isn’t taking that rule?

Curious, does your little WAMP system tray icon have the little Lock on it or not? If it’s not there, then I believe it is in “online” mode, and so anybody can view your web pages.

Marf: It is offline (wamp only add/removes the Allow from line in the http.conf)

Oops…. just copying the VH to this box and suddenly I see it…. Directory directive was not the same as the DocumentRoot.
Solved

I am able to share my local site with my co worker but only one person at the time then I see your “howto” now either I got fobidden or no page display. Seriously if it is in Windows should be “\s” instead “/s” also when you state document like this

DocumentRoot “c:/Users/marf/Projects/sandbox/html”

How do I approach this?
In your folder sanbox do you anything.html? can I say .htm?
Please help. I need to be done by Monday.

Excellent! Thanks Big big!

Thanks for the great tutorial, it is very clear and easy to follow with the screen shots!

I tried it on Vista and when I put in subdomain.localhost, it kept bringing up the same page as just localhost, it wasn’t accessing my subdomain site. I had to change the second VirtualHost a little to put in your-local-domain:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot “c:/Users/marf/Projects/your local folder/html”
ServerName your-local-domain

…

I restarted the Wamp services and now it works

Olivier, if you could be more specific as to where you added that, because I don’t see how that is different than what I have above.
Thanks

Thanks for the article. I was having trouble accessing the dashboard after adding my local domain. Going to localhost would load my localdomain site. Making sure the virtual host entry for localhost came before my localdomain took care of the issue.

Hey, This is the best tutorial on WAMP virtual hosts on the web. I should know, I tried and failed with several others. Perhaps it was because the other tutorials were for an earlier version of WAMP and I have WAMP 2.0 installed?

Thank you so much for taking the trouble to put such a well explained and illustrated tutorial online. I am now hosting multiple local sites.

Well done.

Thanks! I reviewed four or five other sites before finding yours buried deep in Google results. I’ll share this with others.

Thanks for this awesome tutorial!

I installed WAMP on my machine for the first time yesterday after years of working online. Following your tutorial was completely painless and I’ve now managed to set everything up so I can access all my sites on a separate hard drive where I’ve had them stored - awesome job!

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed

Thanks, it works for me. Thank you very much.

Wow, thank you so much for this post!

I just upgraded from WAMP5 to WampServer 2.0 and my old virtual hosts no longer worked. I only had DocumentRoot and ServerName entries under WAMP5 but this doesn’t translate to WampServer2 without throwing 403 Forbidden errors.

Your tutorial was the only one I found that mentioned the entries. I added those and now my local sites have come back.

I wish I’d found your tutorial first, I’ve just wasted the last two hours reading others that have sent me completely on the wrong path!

Thanks again for saving me from losing more hair

Thanks, thats what i was looking for developing symfony projects at same time.

I seem to be having problems getting the www. to work as well as the tld. Any ideas?

My code seems identical to the code above

This was exactly the solution I was looking for.. worked perfectly. Thanks for putting it together.

Thanks so much for this, struggled through at least 6 other tutorials before trying yours which worked first time! thanks! though its worth noting for anyone trying this on earlier versions of apache that not all the files and lines are present.

I wanted virtual server up and running at the ealiest and so googled and tried to implement reading the tutorials - only this worked in mins. Thanks a ton.

Hi,

Thanks for the great tutorial. I have tried a few different easy install apache php mysql along quite a few tutorials trying to get virtual hosts working with limit success. Sounds like you had similar experiences. Your tutorial and WAMP has made my life a lot easier, and its the first tutorial thats made virtual hosts work properly while not breaking the localhost and the WAMP homepage on the localhost.

Well done.

Hi Thanks for the tut. I had virtual hosts running on WAMP5 no problem. But setting this up doesn’t work for me. FYI i completely uninstalled old WAMP and installed the latest version. I’ve done the changes and restarted all services, http://localhost works fine, displays the WAMP dashboard, but other domains cant be found. any ideas?

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot “c:/wamp/www/”
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog “logs\localhost-error.log”
CustomLog “logs\localhost-access.log” common

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot “c:/wamp/www/dom/www/”
ServerName dom.localhost
ErrorLog “logs\dom-error.log”
CustomLog “logs\dom-access.log” common

@henkedo same problem, here. Really pissed.