Question

I installed WAMP Server on my laptop, which is running Windows 8 Pro.

I created a number of folders in the www folder in the wamp folder. My problem is that whenever I try accessing the folders from the localhost page in my web browser, I am taken to the internet page of the folder i.e. I have two folders named family & prestashop. Whenever I click on them, a tab opens in my browser directing me to http://family/ instead of http://localhost/family/

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

Without seeing your httpd.conf (or httpd-vhosts.conf) it is hard to say where your problem is (or why it is a problem). Usually, to set up multiple sites, you will add virtual hosts to your httpd.conf or httpd-vhosts.conf which will tell WAMP what to do when people try to access that folder. The difference between a web address that looks like http://localhost/family and http://family is probably that you have set up a virtual host which allows you to get at that directory without running through ‘localhost’.

Do you have something like this in your http-vhosts.conf in C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache<version>\conf\extras\ ?

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "C:\wamp/www/family/"
  ServerName "family"
</VirtualHost>