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This tutorial will guide you through installing Virtual Sites for Apache Web Server. This is applicable only if you planning to built your web application not from http://localhost.

Below listed are the series of steps that will allow you to add virtual sites:

Here i am trying to add dev.hiteshagrawal.com. Before doing this make sure to create a backup of the files that will be edited to create virtual site just in case if anything wrong happens to the system.

• Edit the “hosts” file available at the windows folder\system32\drivers\etc

Example:
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts – Win98, WinXP, WinME
C:\WinNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts – WINNT based OS

• Open the “hosts” file in a Text Editor. You will find entries at the end similar to 127.0.0.1 localhost. Below this statement add this line
  127.0.0.1 dev.hiteshagrawal.com
  Now save the file.

Step 2 – Update Apache Web Server Configuration File
The next step involves configuring Apache Web Server to know him that it also needs to accept requests for http://dev.hiteshagrawal.com.
Open the Apache Web Server configuration file (httpd.conf) located at “apache root folder/conf”.
Example if your Apache Web Server Folder is on C Drive then the path would be C:\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf

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Now you need add the following code inside the httpd.conf file.

    <virtualhost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/websites/hiteshagrawal.com"
        ServerName dev.hiteshagrawal.com
    </virtualhost>

<directory "C:\websites\hiteshagrawal.com">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</directory>

Step 4 – Cross Check to validate your changes
Create a file index.php in the Virtual Directory folder. Open your browser and type in the domain that you configured and index.php.
Here http://dev.hiteshagrawal.com/index.php

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