XAMPP Subdomain with Joomla Site

2
votes

I'm using XAMPP v3.2.4 and I don't know if this makes any difference but Joomla 3.9.14

In my local environment I access my Joomla site by visiting localhost/mysite. I now want to have a sub domain localhost/apps.mysite.

I've created a folder called apps and placed this in my Joomla root directory, which is C:\xampp\htdocs\mysite\apps. This folder contains a single index.html file.

I've made the following changes;

In my Windows hosts file I added the following line;

127.0.0.1           localhost/apps.mysite

In my httpd-vhosts.conf file I added;

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
<virtualhost *:80="">
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite/apps"
    ServerName localhost/apps.mysite
    ServerAlias www.apps.mysite.localhost.com
</virtualhost>

I haven't made any other changes to config files. I've restarted Apache a few times, no change.

When I visit the URL http://localhost/apps.mysite I see the following error;

Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404 localhost Apache/2.4.41 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1c PHP/7.3.9

What do I need to change in order to access my subdomain at http://localhost/apps.mysite

2
phpapachejoomlasubdomainvirtualhost
Unlikely your actual problem but as of Apache 2.4 the NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80 is not necessary and generates at least a warning as I remember – RiggsFolly
<virtualhost *:80=""> I dont think the ="" should be there – RiggsFolly
Yea, the VH is nowhere near right. Have you read httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/name-based.html – RiggsFolly
I would suggest 1. Create a VH for your main site. then 2. create a sub domain of that domain. Basically dont use localhost in the name at all – RiggsFolly
localhost/apps.mysite is not a proper subdomain - what are you really looking for? A subdomain could be apps.mysite or apps.localhost – Nico Haase

2 Answers

1
votes

First host file does not handle folders, just map IP addresses to hostname.

Host file should be

127.0.0.1 localhost apps.mysite

or

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 apps.mysite

I prefer the second method because I can comment the line..

Second Your virtual host ServerName localhost/apps.mysite does not work with sub folders.

Valid Servername values can be: domain.com, example.com, site1.example.com, user.site1.example.com and son on.

A virtual host example to map the apps.mysite should be:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName apps.mysite
  ServerAlias  www.apps.mysite
  ## Vhost Document Root
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite/apps"
</VirtualHost>

This is a minimal example, no logs defined or directory specific rules. With this configuration you will be able to reach your site by using http://apps.mysite only on your computer because the host file is resolving the "apps.mysite" to your localhost (127.0.0.1).

What do I need to change in order to access my subdomain at http://localhost/apps.mysite

http://localhost/apps.mysite is not a sub-domain is a domain localhost with a folder apps.mysite, a valid subdomain is subDomain.domain.com.

.com is a top level domain
domain.com is a domain name
subDomain.domain.com is a subdomain of domain.com

Hope it helps.

1
votes

Start by creating a VirtualHost for localhost in case you want to use that for a bit of fiddling

# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localhost
  ServerAlias localhost
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
  <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs"/>
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

## then add main site
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName mysite.local
  ServerAlias www.mysite.local
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite/"
  <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite/"/>
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

## then add the sub domain
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName aps.mysite.local
  ServerAlias www.aps.mysite.local
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysiteapps/"
  <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysiteapps/"/>
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

You will need to add these 2 sites to your C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file like this

127.0.0.1 mysite.local aps.mysite.local
::1 mysite.local aps.mysite.local

For the change to the HOSTS file you will either need to reboot or refresh the DNS Cache like this from a command window

>ipconfig /flushdns