Really there is nothing wrong with the above, but I’ve got a few WordPress multisite installs running that mimic live sites that use wildcard DNS with sub-domains. This is almost a tutorial for myself, because on and off for the last few months I’ve been trying to get a Virtual Hosts set up on my local Windows 7 machine so I can run WordPress and WordPress Multisite.Ĭurrently I am using XAMPP to run Apache and MySQL, but it requires all local hosted directories to run under the “localhost” site, for example: or Virtual Hosts WordPress You can see that the domain has been changed successfully and a 500 internal server error appears for your previous URL ( Next, we need to change the site URL of our WordPress and therefore, we need to access the database.Check out the updated post on getting Localhost Wildcard Subdomains setup Once you are done, you need to restart Apache and MySQL from the XAMPP control panel and check whether opens up in your browser. Next, open the Host file in your text editor and add the following line in the Host file. Now, go to Windows > Search > Run and paste the following line: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts Directory: It is the directory of our virtual host.ServerName: It is the URL for our virtual host.In our case, the folder name is “testing”. DocumentRoot: The folder where files of a site will exist.However, you can change the port to 8080, 8081, etc. VirtualHost: Most web servers use port 80 as their default port.Now, paste the following code at the end of the file text/code: In my case, my XAMPP file is located in drive D. In this article, I’m creating a virtual host in a local environment to work around different WordPress projects.įirst, you need to navigate to D:\xampp\apache\conf\extra or wherever your XAMPP files are located. If you are interested in setting up a new WordPress site on XAMPP, we have created a detailed guide that goes into the details of installing and running up a WordPress site on XAMPP. I am assuming that you already have XAMPP and WordPress installed on your Windows 10. In this tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how you can set up and configure virtual hosts for WordPress websites with XAMPP running on Windows 10. The stack supports the same components as the actual web server and it ensures that when the time comes to take the project live, the database(s) and whole website (s) could be moved easily without any hassle. XAMPP stack provides you a local platform where you can install and run your WordPress sites right from your Desktop/Mac. If you are working with WordPress, setting up virtual hosts and XAMPP stack is a straightforward task. The local setup provides a flexible development environment for experimenting the new techniques and most importantly managing the project code is a simple matter. Follow developers start web development in their local environment and when the work is done, they migrate their site to a live environment.
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