Newbie - Website name

[DaLiMan]

Hello, I'm very very new at this so please forgive my noob questions....

I've setup the xampp server and the demo site works fine.
So now I can make my website and place it in "C:\xampp\htdocs" but I like my site to be found at "http://BevWeb" instead of my internal IP-adress [10.9.154.11] which refers to the xampp installation anyway....

Can anyone tell me how to do this??
I've looked in this forum and the help-files and found something about virtual-hosts but I do not exactly understand how to make it work.

Gr.
Daniel

[LooseCannon]

Hello and welcome DaLiMan. Another noob here, but I know part of an answer for you, which might help.

If only a limited number of PCs wish to access the site, maybe just your own, you could use the Windows "host" files on each PC. Find this in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc". It has _no_ suffix. Make a backup and edit with NotePad or the like.

At the bottom of this file add "10.9.154.11 BevWeb" without the speach marks and a tab between ip address and domain name.

Typing "http://BevWeb" into your browser should query the web server running at that ip address. This might access the XAMPP welcome page, but you say the demo site is working, so I guess you've a virtual or sub domain configured.

If you want the world in general to find your web site, you must consider domain/website registion etc. If so, please say and if you like, we can talk about domain name registration, ISP's and DNS.

[DaLiMan]

OK, this works partly.

When entering http://bevweb I now enter the xampp page.
[ xampp for windows - site ]

Now I need to figure out how to direct to the 'htdocs' instead of the 'xampp' directory.

[Wiedmann]

Now I need to figure out how to direct to the 'htdocs' instead of the 'xampp' directory.

Just delete the "index.php" in "htdocs".

[DaLiMan]

Now I need to figure out how to direct to the 'htdocs' instead of the 'xampp' directory.

Just delete the "index.php" in "htdocs".

Ah, that simple.....

Thanks!!!
Daniel

[Ja]

Now I need to figure out how to direct to the 'htdocs' instead of the 'xampp' directory.

Just delete the "index.php" in "htdocs".

Ah, that simple.....

Thanks!!!
Daniel

Well, my problem is similar, I configure the Apache for redirect htdos/blog, but now I need change other Home site, but I don't remember how do that, ¿is the httpd.conf or other?

[LooseCannon]

Ja, are you asking about having multiple web sites on the one XAMPP installation/server?

If so, you could use the main ..xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf file, but I believe you _should_ use ..xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf.

The httpd-vhosts.conf file can contain the configurations for multiple domains.

Note: if your other "Home site" is not a registered domain (FQDN) then add a line to your host file, as I've stated in the earlier post above. This file ca handle multiple ip/name relationships for access locally.

I hope this helps you remember.

[gunni49]

Hi there! I am totally new here. I have leased a dedicated server and I wanna transfer my website (paysite) to this new dedicated server. At first I need to set-up and configure an Apache server because my site is a php site. For newbies in server administration xampp seems to be the only suitable solution to do this. I have seen that xampp creates several directories due to the installation process so I would like to know which settings I need to point my registered domain to the server ip.
I mean how can I ensure that the domainname lookup leads to the website and not to the xampp admin panel?
Thanks in advance for info.

[Wiedmann]

I mean how can I ensure that the domainname lookup leads to the website

Put your website files into the directory "\xampp\htdocs" and override (or delete) the existing "index.php".