Running multiple virtual hosts under Apache on Windows XP

This will be of no interest to most people but it's useful to note for future reference. The various click-installer solutions to set up Apache and PHP under Windows such as WAMP don't seem to automate the setup of virtual hosts, but it's fairly straightforward to do manually:

1. Create the local directory structure for the new application somewhere useful, eg: C:Documents and SettingsUserMy DocumentsProject Name
2. Add the new hostname in the Windows hosts file C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts, eg:

   127.0.0.1 localhost
   127.0.0.1 project-name
   

3. Edit the httpd.conf file to include the virtualhost definitions at startup (The default WAMP install requires uncommenting this line and linking it to the correct file path), eg:

   # Virtual hosts
   Include "c:/wamp/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"

4. In the httpd-vhosts.conf file, specify the mapping from the project folder to the new hostname:

   NameVirtualHost *
   
   # this is the default mapping to http://localhost/
   
       DocumentRoot C:wampwww
       ServerName localhost
   
   
   # the new virtual host mapping to http://project-name/
   
       DocumentRoot "C:Documents and SettingsUserMy DocumentsProject Name"
       ServerName project-name
     
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
       AllowOverride All
       Order deny,allow
       Deny from all
       Allow from 127.0.0.1
       DirectoryIndex index.php
     
   
   		
   

5. Restart Apache and go...