Setup Unlimited Virtual Host in your WAMP Server

To set up a virtual host and a local domain, follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1:  In folder C:/wamp/www on computer1, we now create 3 folders associated with domain and 2 subdomains as follows:
C:/wamp/www/domain
C:/wamp/www/sub1
C:/wamp/www/sub2

Step 2:  In each folder, we create folder logs to store the log files, and make sure to have these logs folders in place or your wamp will not run:

C:/wamp/www/logs
C:/wamp/www/domain/logs
C:/wamp/www/sub1/logs
C:/wamp/www/sub2/logs

Step 3: open file httpd.conf in folder C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.6\conf and find these lines:

 # Virtual hosts
 #Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
 

Step 4:  uncomment the second line, and make sure there is no blank space in front of second line and in the end of first line or your wamp will not run:

 # Virtual hosts
 Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Step 5:  open file httpd-vhosts.conf in folder C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.6\conf\extra, delete everything in there and replace with these codes below. Make sure to put your main site on very first and localhost in very last.

NameVirtualHost *:80
 <VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName <a href="http://www.domain.com" target="_blank">www.domain.com</a>
 ServerAlias domain.com domain
 DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www/domain
 ErrorLog C:/wamp/www/domain/logs/error.log
 CustomLog C:/wamp/www/domain/logs/access.log common

</VirtualHost>
 <VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName sub1.domain.com
 ServerAlias sub1
 DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www/sub1
 ErrorLog C:/wamp/www/sub1/logs/error.log
 CustomLog C:/wamp/www/sub1/logs/access.log common
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName sub2.domain.com
 ServerAlias sub2
 DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www/sub2
 ErrorLog C:/wamp/www/sub2/logs/error.log
 CustomLog C:/wamp/www/sub2/logs/access.log common
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName localhost
 DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www
 ErrorLog C:/wamp/www/logs/error.log
 CustomLog C:/wamp/www/logs/access.log common
 </VirtualHost>
 

Step 6:  open file “hosts” in folder C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc on computer1; then, delete and replace those dummy codes with these codes:

 127.0.0.1 localhost
 127.0.0.1 domain
 127.0.0.1 sub1
 127.0.0.1 sub2
 

Step 7:  Now, you can access the domain on your local system as

http://domain
http://sub1
http://sub2
http://localhost

Masud Alam

Hi, My name is Masud Alam, love to work with Open Source Technologies, living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I’m a Certified Engineer on ZEND PHP 5.3, I served my first five years a number of leadership positions at Winux Soft Ltd, SSL Wireless Ltd, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), World Vision, Care Bangladesh, Helen Keller, US AID and MAX Group where I worked on ERP software and web development., but now i’m a founder and CEO of TechBeeo Software Company Ltd. I’m also a Course Instructor of ZCPE PHP 7 Certification and professional web development course at w3programmers Training Institute – a leading Training Institute in the country.