Several virtual hosts on the same port with Apache 2.4 - php

Question

I'm trying to do something simple with virtual hosts in Apache 2.4 (using Wampserver 2.5)
I want to be able to have several virtual hosts and access them simply by :
www.project1.dev
www.project2.dev
So I made the following configuration in httpd.conf by reading the official guide :
NameVirtualHost \*:80
#
# Project 1
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myProject1/"
ServerName www.project1.dev
ErrorLog "logs/project1-error_log "
CustomLog "logs/project1-access_log" common
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/myProject1/">
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#
# Project 2
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myProject2/"
ServerName www.project2.dev
ErrorLog "logs/project2-error_log "
CustomLog "logs/project2-access_log" common
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/myProject2/">
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I also added them to my hosts file
127.0.0.1 http://project1.dev
127.0.0.1 http://project2.dev
But while I'm testing after restart wamp services, both http://project1.dev and http://project2.dev point at C:/wamp/www/myProject1/
The second path C:/wamp/www/myProject2/ related to project2.dev seems to be ignored.
Am I missing something?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You have not defined http://project2.dev anywhere - just http://www.project2.dev. So Apache defaults back to first config as it can't find a match.
Add the following config to the first vhost:
ServerAlias project1.dev
and similarly this to the second:
ServerAlias project2.dev
Then restart Apache.

Answer 2

The simple answer is that as of Apache 2.4 the NameVirtualHost *:80 syntax is no longer required or allowed! It throws an error and causes Apache not to start. The error will appear in the apache error log if you look for it.
Oh and NameVirtualHost \*:80 was never right!
So just remove the line NameVirtualHost \*:80 completely.
As soon as you define a Virtual Host, the localhost in httpd.conf gets ignored so you should define that in httpd-vhost.conf as well, otherwise the other 2 VH defs look fine, except for the ServerName and missing ServerAlias and the missing Options
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#
# Project 1
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myProject1/"
ServerName project1.dev
ServerAlias www.project1.dev
ErrorLog "logs/project1-error_log "
CustomLog "logs/project1-access_log" common
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/myProject1/">
AllowOverride all
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#
# Project 2
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myProject2/"
ServerName project2.dev
ErrorLog "logs/project2-error_log "
CustomLog "logs/project2-access_log" common
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/myProject2/">
AllowOverride all
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Quote: But while I'm testing after restart wamp services, both http://project1.dev and http://project2.dev point at C:/wamp/www/myProject1/
If there is an error in your VH definitions, Apache will default to the first correctly defined VH in the httpd-vhosts.conf, so thats what is probably happening
As to your HOSTS file it should include references to the IPV4 and IPV6 stack, especially as windows seems to use the IPV6 stack more and more, afterall that where we are moving to, eventually, and it should not include httpd:// so it should be like this :-
#IPV4 stack ip addresses
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 project1.dev
127.0.0.1 project2.dev
#IPV6 stack ip addresses
::1 localhost
::1 project1.dev
::1 project2.dev
Once you have changed the HOSTS file, you either need to reboot, or do the following in a command windows launches with "Run as Administrator"
net stop dnscache
net start dnscache