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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:34:26+00:00

I’m trying to get dynamic virtual hosts to work, followed the documentation but it

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I’m trying to get dynamic virtual hosts to work, followed the documentation but it didn’t quite work.

These are the domains from my HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 walestourism.local.co.uk
127.0.0.1 www.walestourism.local.co.uk
127.0.0.2 walestourism.local.co.uk
127.0.0.2 www.walestourism.local.co.uk

and this is from httpd.conf:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.2
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2>
ServerName www.walestourism.local.co.uk
ServerAlias walestourism.local.co.uk
DocumentRoot /www/walestourism.local.co.uk
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/walestourism.local.co.uk/cgi-bin
</VirtualHost>

In all my other ones it was always *:80 for the VirtualHost part of the above code.

I have this code in my httpd.conf:

<Directory C:/www/vhosts>   
Order Deny,Allow   
Allow from all 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory C:/www/vhosts1>   
Order Deny,Allow   
Allow from all 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory C:/www/vhosts.www>   
Order Deny,Allow   
Allow from all 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory C:/www/test2>   
Order Deny,Allow   
Allow from all 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory C:/www/>   
Order Deny,Allow   
Allow from all 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

How should I fix this error, as when I type the domain in it takes me to the contents of http://localhost ? That’s the basic problem I get when I try to add domains using dynamic virtual hosts.

Also, if I point my browser to “http://localhost/&#8221;, I get the default “It Works!” page, so I know that my server is running and that this is definitely something to do with the vhosts configuration.

I checked my error log – no errors as a result of this, so why does every domain direct to localhost even when there’s a folder configured for them (/www/ in this case is C:/www, my Apache/webserver’s directory).

I’m new to this area of Apache, and despite an afternoon of Googling, I’m not sure how to fix this.

I decided to try this to avoid doing cmd > httpd -k restart every time I add a new virtualhost for testing, but have I done anything wrong?

I’m on Apache 2.2, using Windows 7, with PHP 5.28 [mentioning specifications here].

What should I do?

All advice is very much appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    As you are using named based virtual hosting, don’t use 127.0.0.2 … just keep it all to 127.0.0.1 … failing that, check the error_log for apache (defined in your httpd.conf) to trouble shoot why it is failing.

    Additionally, get Apache2 working on Windows with VHosts before you get going with PHP …

    As per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html: 

     # Ensure that Apache listens on port 80
 Listen 80

 # Listen for virtual host requests on all IP addresses
 NameVirtualHost *:80

 <VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot /www/example1
 ServerName www.example1.com
 # Other directives here
 </VirtualHost>

 <VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot /www/example2
 ServerName www.example2.org
 # Other directives here
 </VirtualHost>
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