Hello all,

 

I'm a developer by trade so I don't really concentrate on servers but I need to split my WAMP server to host two sites. The reason being is because I need to host a Magento site on one site, (to store my ecommerce work on), and on the other I need a host to serve my other projects.

 

I've googled everywhere but there aren't any decent tutorials. Can anyone send me links of good online tutorials please?

 

Thanks in advance.

I don't use WAMP but it should be as straightforward as adding each site in a folder.

 

According to the docs:

 

 

Using wampserver

The “www” directory will be automatically created (usually c:\wamp\www)
Create a subdirectory in “www” and put your PHP files inside.
Click on the “localhost” link in the WampSever menu or open your internet browser and go to the URL : http://localhost

 

So assuming you have a folder c:\wamp\www simply add another folder for each site, eg c:\wamp\www\site1 c:\wamp\www\site2

 

Then just call each site using http://localhost/www/site1 or http://localhost/site1

 

If that doesn't work you'll probably have to use the virtual route as explained at http://www.trailheadinteractive.com/creating_multiple_virtual_sites_a_single_apache_install_windows_xp

Thanks,

 

I've found a couple of decent topics on creating virtual hosts for WAMP. Thanks anyway.

Aye, I use wamp and xampp.

 

Store the folders in the www folder and then use the apache > httpd.conf file to add virtual hosts in like:

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/_personal/test"

ServerName test.dev

</VirtualHost>

be sure to have this in there too:

NameVirtualHost *:80

IncludeOptional "c:/wamp/vhosts/*"

Include "c:/wamp/alias/*"

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/"

ServerName localhost

</VirtualHost>

Then you should head to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc (if using windows) and edit the hosts file to include something like:

127.0.0.1 test.dev

Restart all services on Wamp and then hit the URL http://test.dev and the site should be there