Question

I’m running Apache on Windows XP via Xampplite, and could use help configuring my virtual directory. Here’s what I’m hoping to do on my dev box:

1. I want my source files to live outside of the xampp htdocs dir
2. on my local machine I can access the project at http://myproject
3. others on my local network can access the project at my.ip.address/myproject
4. keep localhost pointing to the xampp’s htdocs folder so I can easily add other projects.

I’ve got 1 & 2 working by editing the windows hosts file, and adding a virtual directory in xampp’s apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file. I don’t immediately see how to do 3 without messing up 4.

Answer 1

Figured it out: use Alias for #3, instead of VirtualHost, thus:

Alias /myproject 'C:/path/to/my/project' <Directory 'C:/path/to/my/project'>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI   AllowOverride All   Order allow,deny   Allow from all </Directory>