So, when I use localhost/website/index.php to access index.php, it works just fine, yet when I use a domain name like website.com/website/index.php and try to access index.php from another page, it doesn't redirect me there, but instead, reloads the page it was already on.
Then, when I try to access index.php via the search bar, it throws an error saying This page isn't working.
Does anyone know a fix for this?
You need to set up a vhost for Xampp
Here's an example which should be added to C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/website"
ServerName website.com
ErrorLog "logs/website-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/website-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/website"
ServerName website.com
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "conf/ssl.crt/server.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/ssl.key/server.key"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/website">
php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log "logs/website-error.log"
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log "logs/website-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/website-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
You also need to configure your local hosts file to send requests for website.com to your local IP address.
Your hosts file is here: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
Add an entry:
127.0.0.1 website.com
This will allow you to access the website on your local machine.
To access the website on your local network you can either change all computer's hosts files as above, or add a DNS A record into your network switch (if it supports DNS)
A website.com 192.168.1.51 (this is your LAN IP address)
If you need the internet to access the website on Xampp you need to add an A record to your public IP address in your domain name DNS control panel. You can find your pulic IP address here: https://www.whatismyip.com/ and you will also need to allow traffic on ports 80 and 443 in through your router and firewall.
If you do not have a static IP address from your internet service provider, you will need to update your domain name DNS A record each time your IP address changes - e.g. if you restart your router, and/or periodically)
Please note: Xampp was not designed to be accessible from the internet, it will work but it's not secure. Please read https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-you-should-never-use-xampp-on-production-server/
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I want to access my website via virtual host from the internet. For now, I am using the public IP address of my server to access my website. Here is what I am using (please see below).
http://122.4.195.12:7777/site/index.php
Is there a way to access my virtual host from the internet? When I am accessing my virtual host from my internet (https://mysite/site/index.php) I am getting
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error
mysite’s server IP address could not be found.
Is there a way to add a SSL when accessing my website via public IP address? When I change http into https I am getting
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
122.4.195.12 sent an invalid response.
http://122.4.195.12:7777/site/index.php -> https://122.4.195.12:7777/site/index.php
Here is my Virtual Host Config:
<VirtualHost *:7777>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName mysite
<Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs">
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName mysite
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile "crt/scratchitsite/server.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "crt/mysite/server.key"
<Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs">
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Here is the host file of my server:
127.0.0.1 mysite
For question 1
The easier way will still be registering a domain name, point it to your IP address, and setup your VirtualHost ServerName for it
The VirtualHost actually detecting the Host HTTP Header from server site, so the key thing here is:
How to make the client browser send the Host header the same with you defined on server
For example, by using CURL you can force it to use the user definied Host header like this: curl -H 'Host: mysite' 122.4.195.12:7777/site/index.php
If you're using Chrome, you can try to use a browser extension, like this
For question 2
You've enabled HTTPS on port 443 instead of 7777 in your Apache configuration
Which means you should access your HTTPS service like this https://122.4.195.12:443/site/index.php instead of this https://122.4.195.12:7777/site/index.php
After modifying the both the file (httpd-xamp.conf & httpd-vhosts.conf ) I can't access my website either in my localhost nor other computer.
typing in the browser address bar:
mydomain.local
But it only works in localhost computer when we when we type "localhost/phpmyadmin/"
when I'd like to allow another computer in the same LAN to access the website. I've configured the other computer hosts file to contain line:
192.168.1.180 mydomain.local
where 192.168.1.180 is the XAMPP computer IP address. But after typing the http://mydomain.local on the other computer browser, after pressing enter, the address becomes: http://mydomain.local/dashboard and message appear "Object not found & error 404".
So far, I have done this:
Changed c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xamp.conf file to contain this
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.1.180
ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
On my XAMPP computer, I have the following configuration in c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf:
NameVirtualHost *:80
ServerAdmin postmaster#dummy-host2.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myphpapp"
ServerName mydomain.local
ServerAlias mydomain.local
ErrorLog "logs/mydomain.local-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/mydomain.local-access.log" combined
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Is the redirection proper to your script or are you just redirect to your router administration panel?
By the way, if you want to do everything with ease, just take a look at Ngrok, one little line in CLI will solve your problem and it will also make it available outside of your local network!
I am running WAMP and using CodeIgniter for my project and have this on my vhost:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#yahoo.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myproject/assets"
ServerName myproject.dev
ErrorLog "logs/myproject.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/myproject.dev-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Now to access this, I added this line on windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 myproject.dev
Now for the other computers on the network, I have to edit the hosts file of EACH computer so they can access my virtual host. (yes of course I have to use my ip address instead 127.0.0.1 for other computers)
Now my question is, is there a way that they can access my project by only using my ip address on the browser's address bar like this?
http://192.168.1.112/myproject
I mean there are 100 users that will access that project and it's a big hassle if I edit each one's hosts file. Like adding something to .htaccess, or to the routes of CodeIgniter, or to the <virtualHost>
Note:
By the way, when we are still NOT using Codeigniter (plain PHP codes), this is not a problem. But because of Codeigniter's structure, we can't do it anymore.
Can you just add a DNS entry that points to your IP address and set that as the ServerName that apache responds to?
Alternatively you can do virtual hosting based on IP address and port as described here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/ip-based.html
In summary you should be able to do:
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.112:8000>
ServerAdmin admin#yahoo.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myproject/assets"
ServerName myproject.dev
ErrorLog "logs/myproject.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/myproject.dev-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
And have people access it via
http://192.168.1.112:8000/myproject
But, don't forget to add a Listen directive for port 8000 (or whatever you choose) if you use IP-based Virtual hosts
It might work of you create an alias called /myproject in wamp server and point the document root to 'C:/wamp/www/myproject/assets'
Make sure you have set your wamp server status to online by selecting 'Put Online' in wamp server system tray icon.
ATTN! I should mention this is all localhost. As in my machine, no servers or other jazz included.
I am really bad at configuring sites in apache, how ever I have the following config:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/image_upload_app
ServerAlias www.dev-imageuploadapp.com
<Directory /var/www/html/image_upload_app>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
And when ever I visit www.dev-imageuploadapp.com, I get a "The web page is not available" in chrome.
There are no errors in the access or the error log, after attempting to visit the page. Apache is running and the site is enabled.
The directory does exist and contains a index.php.
You need to set ip address of your site on DNS Servers. There is some free DNS Servers like https://www.cloudflare.com/. If you do in this way, you need to set delegated DNS Servers on your domain-holder site. Another try you can go to site to IP by http://{your-ip-address}/
Your browser needs to know which IP address is to use for a provided name. To enforce some values to localhost, you can add them into hosts file. Following line needs to be added:
127.0.0.1 www.dev-imageuploadapp.com
In /etc/hosts change the line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
To
127.0.0.1 localhost www.dev-imageuploadapp.com
I have a Virtual Host in my machine with this configuration:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerName codigos
DocumentRoot /home/code/codigos/app/webroot
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory /home/code/codigos/app/webroot >
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Ok, that works nice when I type this in my browser: codigos/some_path and 127.0.0.1/some_path
But now I'm working with PayPal and I need a url for the IPN. I know that I cant' put localhost in the url, so I suppose that it would be something like this: my.dynamic.ip/some_path/ipn.php ... and thats my problem, I don't know how to configure my apache file to achieve this.
Thanks.
Register at http://www.noip.com/ (or any other dynamic dns site)
Set up their software so that you was possible to ping blabla.noip.com host (or whatever host you've got after the registration and setting up process) and see it resolves to your ip (you can check it with my ip in google)
After that put the given hostname blabla.noip.com to the ServerName or (better) ServerAlias directive
After that you'll be able to access to your virtual host from outside (assuming your firewall doesn't reject connections and you have white IP address)