apache configuration - what am I missing here?

Question

I have a windows XP machine, installed apache at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2

I set the document root as DocumentRoot "C:/projects" in httpd.conf and my projects are proj1 and proj2 in c:\projects

<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot "C:/projects/proj1"

 ServerName  proj1

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

 DocumentRoot "C:/projects/proj2"

 ServerName  proj2

</VirtualHost>

both proj1 and proj2 have index.php files. I added

127.0.0.1 proj1

127.0.0.1 proj2

in the hosts file too.

still, when I type http://proj1, I only see the files listing, the virtual directory isn't working. what am I missing?

Answer 1

Aside from restarting / reloading Apache there's a few other things to check:

First, here are examples of valid vhost configurations:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName proj1
    DocumentRoot "c:/www/proj1"
    <Directory "c:/www/proj1" >
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName proj2
    DocumentRoot "c:/www/proj2"
    <Directory "c:/www/proj2" >
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Note how proj1 and proj2 both have their own VirtualHost directive.

Secondly, make sure the vhosts declarations are being loaded by Apache. In order to get mine to work, I had to uncomment this line in httpd.conf:

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

Answer 2

Not quite enough info without seeing all your config files, but here are a couple things to check:

• Any hints in the apache error log when you start it up?
• Make sure you have NameVirtualHost *:80 somewhere in your config files and that statement is loaded before your vhosts.
• If you can see the directory listing of the proj1 dir, then vhosts are working and you can tweak directory permissions and properties (index files, dir listings allowed, etc).