xampp change document root

Question

I have eclipse IDE and I have set up a workspace in "C:/users/matt/documents/web/". I set up a project called test in the folder test "C:/users/matt/documents/web/test". I have changed the Document root in the httpd file to "C:/users/matt/documents/web/" and the same for

I put "C:/users/matt/documents/web/test" into the browser but I can't access the files in the workspace, same for http://localhost/xampp/web/test/, http://localhost/web/test/ and http://localhost/test/.

I'm out of my depth with server configurations, please help!

Answer 1

c:\XAMPP\apache\conf\httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot C:/users/matt/documents/web/
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory C:/users/matt/documents/web/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

Restart apache web server, then ... Enter: http://localhost/test

Check past question

Answer 2

Make sure you change DocumentRoot in your\path\to\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf as well.

Answer 3

Restart your webserver after changing its config!