Using Domain name instead of localhost in with https in xampp

Question

My question may be stupid, But honestly I searched a lot and got success but not complete.

I use xampp with windows 8.

My host file looks as follows.

    127.0.0.1   localhost     127.0.0.1   www.mysite.com 

My httpd-vhosts.config looks as follows.

    NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1     <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>         DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"         ServerName localhost     </VirtualHost>     <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>         ServerName www.mysite.com         ServerAlias mysite.com         DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite"     </VirtualHost> 

This works perfect for http. But I have enabled ssl.

When I type http://localhost or https://localhost, Both work fine.

When I type http://mysite.com it works,

when I type https://mysite.com it is redirected as https://mysite.com/xampp/ and shows me default welcome page of xampp.

I tried following things.

1) instead of using 127.0.0.1, I tried using *:80 in httpd-vhosts.conf But result was same.

2) instead of using 127.0.0.1, I tried using *:443 in httpd-vhosts.conf But at the time of restarting apache fails to start again.

Please let me know how can I access my site through domain name instead of localhost with https or http.

Answer 1

I tried many things, But I think I missed basic edit.

Now all working fine.

Now host file is still the same as mentioned in question. I did not make any changes to it.

I changed port in httpd-vhosts.config as shows below.

NameVirtualHost *     <VirtualHost *>         DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"         ServerName localhost     </VirtualHost>     <VirtualHost *>         ServerName www.mysite.com         ServerAlias mysite.com         DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite"     </VirtualHost> 

Also the step I missed, was editing httpd-ssl.config file in same folder that of httpd-vhosts.config.

I just added following lines before last line of http-ssl.config file i.e. < /IfModule>

<VirtualHost _default_:443>      DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mysite"      ServerName www.mysite.com:443      ServerAlias mysite.com:443       SSLEngine on      SSLCertificateFile "conf/ssl.crt/server.crt"      SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/ssl.key/server.key"  </VirtualHost>  

Thank You all friends for helping me lot on this, Without your links I would never ever be able to find out that I need to edit one more file.

Answer 2

Let me explain step by step for other guys too.

1. Map your custom domain name to localhost in HOSTS file.

Open hosts file and add below line.

127.0.0.1 www.example.com 

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2. Tell XAMPP about your custom domain.

Add below content to httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *>     ServerName www.example.com     ServerAlias example.com     DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/example" </VirtualHost> 

If you have port for your localhost, then add it as <VirtualHost *:80>

Restart apache,Now you can access http://example.com in your browser.

3. If you want to access https://example.com

Add below line to httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>     DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/example"     ServerName www.example.com     SSLEngine on     SSLCertificateFile "conf/ssl.crt/server.crt"     SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/ssl.key/server.key"     <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/example">         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

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