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:

Create the local directory structure for the new application somewhere useful, eg: C:Documents and SettingsUserMy DocumentsProject Name
Add the new hostname in the Windows hosts file C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts, eg:
```
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 project-name
```
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"
```

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

Restart Apache and go...