Setting Up Virtual Servers in WAMP

July 14th, 2009 0 Comments

One tool I find indespensible in my job is virtual servers with WAMP. Virtual Servers allow you to run multiple projects at the same time on your localhost allowing you to quickly and easily change projects. Setting up Virtual Servers is easy:

  1. Edit httpd.conf

    This file is found in C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf. Uncomment this line will include the apache virtual hosts setup file.

    Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

    Search for <Directory /> in the httpd.conf file. The “default” settings here are really restricted so for a local dev setup you can change them to:

Jason Hale
Posted in: WAMP/MAMP, Web Development