Apache virtual host 404 not found - php

Question

I just started learning php and I am trying to host locally my own php website by using XAMPP.
I wanted to create virtual host with:
URL: myphpwebsite.local
Port: 8088
But when I attempted to access this website through the browser I got a:
Not Found
HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
My httpd-vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8088
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8088>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost myphpwebsite.local>
DocumentRoot "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite"
ServerName myphpwebsite.local
ErrorLog "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite/logs/myphpwebsite.local.error.log"
CustomLog "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite/logs/myphpwebsite.local.custom.log" combined
<Directory "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And my C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 myphpwebsite.local
Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

make sure there's file/htaccess/index or whatever in directory you want to open, 404 may comes from that ;)
try using one below, eventually replace your port:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite"
ServerName myphpwebsite.local
</VirtualHost>
the question is your Apache running/serving on port 8088?
For example my xamp is running on 80 and 443...
xamp control panel is very handy, it has nice logs button that will open your log files to show you php and apache errors etc. check it out.
Try going with default port, if it works it means that you need to play with ports if you really want to.
just a quick tip, .com is shorter than .local and if you're using chrome and it works like mine then most of the time something.local will redirect you to google search (and I like my search there, you can switch it off ;))

Answer 2

I don't know if I am much help, but using WAMP, here are my settings. I am listening on port 80, I use 8080 for my tomcat server.
hosts file
127.0.0.1 local.mysite.com
httpd-vhosts.conf
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
....
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/path/to/site/root">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName local.mysite.com
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/path/to/site/root"
ServerAdmin me#email.com
ProxyPreserveHost Off
RewriteEngine On
AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
#AllowEncodedSlashes On
ErrorLog "c:/wamp/www/path/to/logs/error.log"
CustomLog "c:/wamp/www/path/to/logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
....
Then I can access my local site like this: http://local.mysite.com
Hope this helps...

Answer 3

The NameVirtualHost directive needs to match the value of VirtualHost exactly, and you need to specify the port in each instance. If you want to use port 8088 for myphpwebsite.local, you'd need to do:
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8088
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8088>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8088>
DocumentRoot "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite"
ServerName myphpwebsite.local
ErrorLog "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite/logs/myphpwebsite.local.error.log"
CustomLog "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite/logs/myphpwebsite.local.custom.log" combined
<Directory "C:/Microsoft/Workspace/myphpwebsite">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Notice the VirtualHost opening tags are identical; it's the ServerName value that actually tells Apache which domain this particular directive applies to. Restart your server after making the changes. Check out this page for more information: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Make sure that the port you are using is not being used by another service.