How to delete a wamp virtual site?

Question

With the new WAMP, you have to create a virtual host site to see it in localhost development. Which I did, and it worked.
However, I just moved that website to a Live server, and I cannot, for the life of me, see the website in my browser. I get a message:

This site can’t be reached

My friends see it, but it cannot be seen by the development computer.

I tried :

• Deleting the definition in httpd-vhosts
• Rebooting
• Flushing Windows 10 DNS cache

All to no avail. And I cannot find information about deleting a website from WAMP!!! Any hint appreciated.

Answer 1

It may be due to the hostname duplicate. Edit the virtual host to fix this.

For windows users, edit your virtual host from

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

and

C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\conf\extra

To edit these files you need to run as administrator. To do this, try the following steps:

1. Press the Windows key.
2. Type Notepad in the search field.
3. In the search results, right-click Notepad and select Run as administrator.
4. From Notepad, open the following file: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts.
5. Make the necessary changes to the file.
6. Click File > Save to save your changes.

Finally restart the server.

Answer 2

I am assuming that you use a local domain name that is the same as your live sites domain name i.e. mysite.com rather than mysite.dev

So you will have added a line to your HOSTS file like this

127.0.0.1 mysite.com
::1  mysite.com

So from your PC you have told windows your site lives locally on this PC.

All you need to do is remove those 2 lines from your C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file and then either reboot or run (from an admin acoount)

net stop dnscache
net start dnscache

Now Windows does not know where yoursite.com lives and it will ask a DNS Server for the LIVE sites IP Address, and find your live site.

Answer 3

Babitha's post is correct but I had to make these changes:

For both you need to edit them as administrator
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.46\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
Don't just come paste your apache version can be diffrent and your wamp location in another place.

Edit virtual host that you need.