Laravel installation on windows part 2 — Virtual Host

1. After basic on part1 , we can set up a virtual host on xampp.

short stories why we use an virtual host instead of using artisan server, because we need to set up this project on production server later.

2. Open the windows explorer and go to the xampp>apache>conf>extra folder. Find the “ httpd-vhosts.conf “ file. Open with your text editor and copy down from the commanded example ( marked by ## ) make some changes.

##<VirtualHost *:80>
    ##ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
    ##DocumentRoot "/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host2.example.com"
    ##ServerName dummy-host2.example.com
    ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
    ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
##</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin johnDoe
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/project_folder/public"
    ServerName project_folder.local
    <Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/project_folder/public">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

3. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder you will see “ hosts “ file. Open hosts as Administrator. Add “ project_folder.local “ your hosts file and save and restart the apache service on xampp control panel.

# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
 127.0.0.1       localhost
 127.0.0.1       project_folder.local

4. Finally we can run “ project_folder.local ” from the browser