How to change the URL from "localhost" to something else, on a local system using wampserver?

Question

On a Windows machine, there's a system running on the local wampserver, but while the application is running on localhost, the URL says otherwise.

While I would expect the URL to be like this based on the directory structure:

http://localhost/pro/include/db_report.php 

The developer has managed to do this:

http://ap-mispro/pro/include/db_report.php 

So instead of localhost, the URL says ap-mispro.

And both URLs work fine.

How is the second URL made? I tried checking out the wampmanager.ini and wampmanager.tpl but maybe I didn't know what to look for?

Answer 1

WINDOWS + WAMP solution

Step 1
Go to C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\
open httpd.conf file and change
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
to
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
i.e. uncomment the line so that it can includes the virtual hosts file.

Step 2
Go to C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\extra
and open httpd-vhosts.conf file and add the following code

<VirtualHost myWebsite.local>     DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myWebsite/"     ServerName myWebsite.local     ServerAlias myWebsite.local     <Directory "C:/wamp/www/myWebsite/">         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

change myWebsite.local and C:/wamp/www/myWebsite/ as per your requirements.

Step 3
Open hosts file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/ and add the following line ( Don't delete anything )

127.0.0.1 myWebsite.local 

change myWebsite.local as per your name requirements

Step 4
restart your server. That's it

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WINDOWS + XAMPP solution

Same steps as that of WAMP just change the paths according to XAMPP which corresponds to path in WAMP

Answer 2

Copy the hosts file and add 127.0.0.1 and name which you want to show or run at the browser link. For example:

127.0.0.1   abc 

Then run abc/ as a local host in the browser.