Question

So, I love Wamp. It’s great for development. The only downside is that in wamp, I have to code everything to use “localhost/projectname/” as a base, but on my actual site, everything has the base of just “/”.

Is there a way to use wamp where it treats localhost has your website url?

Answer 1

here’s how I’m doing :

1. I’m editing my httpd.conf file and append a virtual host at
   the bottom of it (in the dedicated lines) each time I want to add a
   new local website :

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/fake"
       ServerName fakesite
   </VirtualHost>
   

2. And I tell windows to point the local host address (127.0.0.1) from
   the hostname that I defined (fakesite in the example):

I’m using windows and I just edit the following file :
X:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and append a new line as
follow : 127.0.0.1 fakesite

note : you’ll need to restart wamp after edition config files.

This way and if everything went right you’ll just need to type fakesite/xxx to reach the following physical folder : c:/wamp/www/fake/xxx