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Asked: 2026-06-06T01:08:51+00:00

I use XAMPP for local development and I’ve heard of developers that change the

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I use XAMPP for local development and I’ve heard of developers that change the url structure from localhost/site to site.dev, but I’m not sure how to go about it.

How can I change it and is there anything I should know before changing it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ll need to add an entry in your host file to map site.dev to localhost

    127.0.0.1 site.dev www.site.dev

    and add a virtual host in apache to detect it

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /path/to/document/root/site/
    ServerName site.dev
    ServerAlias  www.site.dev
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /path/to/document/root/
    ServerName localhost
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>
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