Comments on: How to setup local subdomains using Wampserver

By: Shankar

Shankar — Tue, 03 May 2016 05:58:27 +0000

Thanks for the post. This worked at the first attempt. Thank you

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:39:56 +0000

Hi,

You tutorial is great but I’m getting a 403 Forbidden when I try to access either localhost.com or any of the subdomains.

Here is what’s in my vhost conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80

ServerName localhost.com
ServerAlias http://www.localhost.com
DocumentRoot “C:\wamp\www”
ErrorLog “logs\errors.log”

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from all

ServerName localhost.com
ServerAlias *.localhost.com
VirtualDocumentRoot “C:\wamp\www\subdomains\%1″
ErrorLog “logs\errors.log”

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from all

Any ideas on what is misconfigured?

Thanks

By: Martijn

Martijn — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:54:13 +0000

If you want to keep `localhost` besides the new (sub)-domains, add the following to your `httpd-vhosts.conf` file:

ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot “c:\wamp\www”

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:07:11 +0000

Great that’s what it was for me!

By: Jonathan Robert

Jonathan Robert — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:58:41 +0000

after following the steps above, this is what is happening

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12 Server at http://www.localhost.com Port 80

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:00:51 +0000

Does this work with developing word press multi-site network locally? For some reason, I can’t get wordpress to allow me to use subdomains, only sub-directories.

By: Kishan

Kishan — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:53:03 +0000

If Your localhost PORT set 81
***** For localhost:81 *****

NameVirtualHost *:81

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any block.
#

#ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www”
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
#ErrorLog “logs/dummy-host.example.com-error.log”
#CustomLog “logs/dummy-host.example.com-access.log” common

DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www/subdomain”
ServerName subdomain.localhost.com
ServerAlias subdomain.localhost.com
ErrorLog “logs/mydomain_error.log”

By: Mubashar Ahmad

Mubashar Ahmad — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:26:36 +0000

I have changed following in httpd-vhosts.conf file but not working:

NameVirtualHost *:80

ServerAdmin localhost@localhost.com
DocumentRoot “D:/wamp/www/”
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
ErrorLog “logs/localhost-error.log”
CustomLog “logs/localhost-access.log” common

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost.com
DocumentRoot “D:/wamp/www”
ServerName localhost.com
ServerAlias http://www.localhost.com
ErrorLog “logs/com-errors.log”
CustomLog “logs/com-access.log” common

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost.com
VirtualDocumentRoot “D:\wamp\www\subdomain\%1″
ServerName localhost.com
ServerAlias *.localhost.com
ErrorLog “logs\sub-errors.log”

By: Snehanshu Phukon

Snehanshu Phukon — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 06:13:47 +0000

I want to know that how will I be able to do the above steps in a Webhost like Hostgator. If the above steps are not possible in Webhost, then what should I do. Actually I want to make a website that builds free website like Blogspot. I will need provide subdomains to the users like example.blogspot.com. Please help.

By: vani

vani — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:56:14 +0000

Hi , i have did everything same like you,but when i try to access the folder inside the subdomains,getting server not found page. kindly tell me where the problem is