Virtual host<\/strong> is one of the best ways to host multiple domains. Virtual host can be IP based or name based. IP based means that difference IP address of different websites and home based means running multiple names in each IP address.<\/p>\n

In local PHP development environment like xampp\/wampp, virtual host is also helpful because it reduces base url problems and it is better to hit local.wordpress<\/code> then localhost\/wordpress<\/code>.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to setup multiple hosts on xampp. Because as a PHP developer, We are usually running multiple projects at a same time.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have xampp on your local machine or you want to install xampp on your machine. Please read my below 2 posts according to your OS.<\/p>\n

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• How to install XAMPP on Local Machine<\/a><\/li>\n
• How to install XAMPP-VM on Mac OS X<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Steps: Setup multiple virtual hosts on XAMPP<\/h2>\n

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  • Create folder in xampp\\htdocs<\/code> folder. I will create test1<\/code> and test2<\/code> folder<\/li>\n
  • Open httpd-vhosts.conf<\/code> file under xampp\\apache\\conf\\extra<\/code><\/li>\n
  • Add virtual hosts for test1 and test2<\/li>\n
  • Open hosts<\/code> file under C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc<\/code> and add host for test1 and test2 and save hosts file as a administrator.<\/li>\n
  • Restart Xampp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I have installed xampp on my E:\\ directory on windows.<\/span><\/p>\n

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