I am currently using WAMP to host a website on my local PC. I have two questions with regards to configuration:
1) Whenever I want to add something to my website, I am required to edit wp-config.php to point to the directory of localhost instead of my live site
/* Making edits with localhost
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://localhost/example');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://localhost/example');
/* Public site directory
/*define('WP_HOME', 'http://example.com');*/
/*define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com');*/
Is there an easier way to automate this? I can't imagine every person who uses WAMP with wordpress has to go through this process, am I missing something?
2) Whenever I have a virtual host for localhost, people who view my website are redirected to my localhost instead of the website. My config for http-vhosts.conf virtual hosts is as follows:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
So, I need to comment out the block every time my site goes live, then it works fine. However, whenever I want to make changes to my website, I have to uncomment the virtual host again. Similar to my first issue, is there an easier way to switch between site maintenance and online mode? Thanks in advance for any comments/suggestions.
WAMP is used locally and you should have a separate public installation for your live public site. WAMP is not meant for external access.
Local installation is not protected against attacks, nor heavy traffic. One should use some hosting service.
Once installations are separated, the above issue is resolved.
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I want to be able to use root-relative-paths (ex: /incl/file.php) while developing the website in XAMPP's localhost so that it will work in the same way when I upload it to a webserver. In order to do that, I've set up a Virtual Host within XAMPP. The Virtual Host works fine when I access it with absolute paths (ex: C:/xampp/htdocs/incl/file.php) or pahts without the slash (incl/file.php), but root-relative-paths (/incl/file.php) don't work at all.
I've tried many different configurations of Virtual Host set ups that I found here and on many websites and uninstalling and installing XAMPP. I've also tried to use "\" instead of "/", but the result is the same. I have Windows 10 Pro with the latest XAMPP version installed on it.
This is the Virtual Host set up I am currently employing.
In the hosts file:
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 atriero.localhost
In the httpf-vhosts.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/subdomains/site"
ServerName atriero.localhost
<Directory "C:/xampp/subdomains/site">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
As an example of root-relative-paths that are not working, in my index page I have
require "/header.php";
which is located on the "site" folder, the same where index.php is located. If I type "header.php" without the slash, it works fine.
There's also in the header.php page the following line
include_once '/includes/dbh.inc.php';
where the same issue happens, dbh.inc.php is located in the includes folder within the site folder. If I take the slash out the link works fine, but in the way it is writen, with root-relative-path, it doesn't work.
I expect that it is possible to run root-relative-paths with Virtual Host in XAMPP, I assume it would really help in the development of my website and as far as I know it would be the best way to do so.
If for some reason it isn't possible to use root-relative-paths with Virtual Host and if I have to upload my website to the server without the "\" before every path, will it be harmfull in any way to the working of my website?
Thanks in advance.
I can access my localhost using a computer, and I can access it too via my mobile phone, but when I installed wordpress on it, I can no longer access it via mobile phone, it's always telling me "localhost refused to connect" with error code ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED but it works completely fine on my computer. I tried removing the .htaccess but no luck. However, I can access html files for example the readme.html (on phone http://192.168.0.13/readme.html)
My current IPv4 Address on my computer is 192.168.0.13, and I use this address to access it on my phone, but it always redirects me to "localhost". Is it because the home url of my wordpress is set to "http://localhost"? How can I fix this?
This is my httpd-vhosts.conf (if it helps)
# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
Require ip 192.168.0.1
Require ip 192.168.0.28
Require ip 192.168.0.33
Require ip 192.168.0.13
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I am using WampServer Version 3.1.0 64bit and here are my configurations
Apache 2.4.27
PHP 7.1.9
MySQL 5.7.19
MariaDB 10.2.8
What am I missing? I badly need it to work, it's for my web development purposes.
Is it because the home url of my wordpress is set to "http://localhost"?
Yes, it probably is. If you are being redirected to localhost constantly. You can access a HTML file because it does not containt the logic of the Wordpress PHP installation which will try to redirect you to the base URL. Try changing the base URL of your wordpress installation in the admin panel on your computer (if that is possible) otherwise you should change the base url in the wp-config.php file.
Try changing it to your local IPv4 address: http://192.168.0.13
This can probably help you: https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
Also for your apache configuration try this:
ServerName 192.168.0.13
ServerAlias localhost
I do not have any real experience with Apache but as far as i understood the documentation this should work for you.
Sources:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/name-based.html
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#servername
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#serveralias
Jeez, I tried changing both wordpress address and site address to my local ipv4 address 192.168.0.13, and voila, I can finally accessed it. Lol
I'm so dumb, Thank you for the help guys.
I am trying to setup virtual host for Magento, but its not working, I created magento.localhost.com.conf in the Apache2/sites-avaliable directory, this is my file :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin magento#localhost.com
ServerName magento.localhost.com
DocumentRoot /srv/www/magento_dev/public_html
<Directory /srv/www/magento_dev/public_html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /srv/www/magento_dev/logs/error.log
LogLevel warn
</VirtualHost>
I am following instructions from book actually ,also changed /etc/hosts file , I added 192.168.36.1 magento.localhost.com. at the end , but when I try to open the site, it says :
This webpage is not available
I enabled apache rewrite, give permission to all this folders ,basically did everything as instructions, but still not working. My os is Ubuntu 14.04, any tips ?
Follow recommendations in comments for a2ensite and for testing with a simple index.php file.
Also make sure to restart Apache.
When that works, then try with the Magento index.php file.
What you do next depends on if this is a brand new copy of Magento or a copy of a previously installed one. If it's new, you should see the setup page. Follow the instructions. If it's a copy, you will need to change the database core_config_data values relating to your website urls.
Edit:
You say
changed /etc/hosts file ,I added 192.168.36.1
On what machine did you change this? Also is your Magento running in a virtual machine on your Windows machine? And the VM machine has that IP?
Edit 2:
Also change your web server name to "Magento.mysite.com" or something like that. localhost has a special meaning! And it doesn't make sense if you are accessing a remote we server!
Check web server ip with ipconfig or ifconfig on the command prompt. Put that ip in the hosts file of the web browser machine.
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I need your help here in creating a virtual host in wampserver. In office I can create a virtual hosts but when I try to create in my laptop it doesn't work. I still can't figure out what's wrong. Here's what I did.
I copy the wordpress file in this folder. This will be the path of my project
E:\Subversion\chelle.wpblog.local
I edit the host file
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
I added it to the end of file
127.0.0.1 chelle.wpblog.local
Next is I enable the virtual host in Apache
C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.4.4\conf\httpd.conf
I uncomment this
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Next is I setup the virtual host in WAMP
C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.4.4\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
I add this at the bottom
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName chelle.wpblog.local
ServerAlias chelle.wpblog.local
DocumentRoot "E:/Subversion/chelle.wpblog.local/"
<Directory "E:/Subversion/chelle.wpblog.local/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Last is restart wampserver and open the chelle.wpblog.local in the browser. And it doesn't display. It display only google search results.
I was installing the zend framework on my local wamp using apache server.
First go and decide what will be your domain name for the local url.
Ex->www.test_zend_tutorial.com
then go and open the file located at "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc"
hosts
write
127.0.0.1 (use one tab space) www.test_zend_tutorial.com
then go to the folder located at
D:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17 (whatever is your version) \conf\
and open the file
httpd.conf
and search for text
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
and uncomment it by removing the # tag from the start of the line.Save the file and close it.
Now go to another folder located at
D:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\extra
and open the file
httpd-vhosts.conf
and paste the code below at the last in this file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot "D:\wamp\www"
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog "logs/localhost-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.test_zend_tutorial.com
DocumentRoot "D:\wamp\www\(your project folder name)\public"
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<directory "D:\wamp\www\(your project folder name)\public">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride all
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
and restart the wamp, now write the www.test_zend_tutorial.com in the browser and you will see the things working.
If when you use the new domain in the browser it goes to a google search or something like that then the change to your hosts file has not been recognised.
You have to either reboot after changing the hosts file or more simply run these 2 commands from a command windows ( as administrator )
net stop dnscache
net start dnscache
This will refresh windows DNS cache and pick up your hosts file changes.
It is also a good idea to ping your new domain to check it is being seen, use
ping chelle.wpblog.local
If it reports 127.0.0.1 as the ip address and 4 send and 4 receieved packet then the domain is now known to Windows, if it reports some other ip address the hosts file change has not succeeded.
Also it is a good idea when creating VHOSTS to also create one for localhost or the wamp home page will not work.
You also have old Apache 2.2 syntax (Order allow,deny allow from all) you could try using the Apache 2.4 syntax, see below
So try this
## must be first so the the wamp menu page loads
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#mail.net
DocumentRoot "D:/wamp/www"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "D:/wamp/www">
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#mail.net
ServerName chelle.wpblog.local
ServerAlias www.chelle.wpblog.local
DocumentRoot "E:/Subversion/chelle.wpblog.local"
<Directory "E:/Subversion/chelle.wpblog.local">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
In WampServer 3.0.4 you do not need to run through all those setting up.
Go to local host and under Tools area for "Add a Vertual Host" in the first time it will say turn on "Vertual Host sub menu" in wamp server settings.
To get there right click on wamp icon > go to wamp server settings > and click on Vertual Host sub menu. Then re-fresh the page and follow the setup process, you just need to provide the server name and path. It will do all the works for you.
Simple as that
Method 1:
in hosts file
127.0.0.1 mysite
::1 mysite
in C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\conf\extra\httpd-vosts.conf file add your virtual host as follows
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite
DocumentRoot "<path_to_your_local_site>"
<Directory "<path_to_your_local_site>">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Make sure vhost configuration is enable in httpd.conf file is enabled as follows
C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\conf\httpd.conf
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
After you have changed configuration as above, restart all service in wamp and load website as follows
http://mysite
your local site should open.
Method 2:
In latest versions of wamp, you can do this configuration via webpage.
Open localhost in your browser. You would see wamp welcome page.
Down below under Tools, there is option to add virtual host. click on the link which would take you to add virtual host page.
In Name of the host, enter your site name eg: mysite
Under Complete absolute path of the VirtualHost folder, enter the path of your site.
Save the config and restart all services. you should be able to open mysite with the link http://mysite
As pointed in another answer, in newer versions of wam
The answers above are overcomplicating the problem somewhat, and in fact the question is including extra information that's misleading the responders.
The clues lie in step 2 and the symptoms described in 5. The hosts file is set up but when the request is made to "blah.local", google responds. Apache is not involved.
The first step to diagnosis would be pinging blah.local and seeing that it maps correctly to 127.0.0.1. I have never (in many years as a developer) found it necessary to restart local DNS on either Windows or Linux/Mac so I would expect this to work out of the box. But if it doesn't, of course restart DNS and see that it does.
However, late versions of Chrome at least do not recognize the TLD '.local' and so when you put the URL back in the browser, it's passed on to Google as a search term. There may be a setting in your browser to tell it to handle the unsanctioned TLD, but your simplest solution would be to use a TLD that's sanctioned by W3C like '.com'.
In short, if your hosts file reads something like
127.0.0.1 local.chelle.wpblog.com
rather than
127.0.0.1 chelle.wpblog.local
everything should work.
Create the folder for your local website
Go to localhost (browser)
Click Add a Virtual Host button
Add the name of the virtual host
Add the complete absolute path
Restart DNS
I am using WAMP, i have a magento project along with other php projects. All except magento project are accessible over LAN. In my office the IP that is alloted is a dynamic one, and changes upon reconnection. The problem is, upon fixing the IP in configuration--> web --> url,
the project runs, but soon after reconnection the magento project is not accessible on localhost nor on LAN (due to IP change). I am looking for a solution, that will make magento listen to current system IP when its online and also to localhost when its offline.
You should change your HOSTS file like this
127.0.0.1 anydomain.com
then change the record in the table [core_config_data] where the column [path = web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url] to http://anydomain.com
Go to admin page and flush magento cache.
Hope this work for your case.
First do this
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/allow-pings-icmp-echo-request-through-your-windows-vista-firewall/
Then Add this to C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.27\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts
# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>