The Apache documentation is a bit unclear on the vhost configuration. Where I normally use wampserver, I discovered a discrepancy with XAMPP. Consider the fairly standard httpd.conf in the XAMPP distribution containing among other things:
ServerName localhost:80
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
And a empty httpd-vhosts.conf file. Everything works as advertised and the content of the xamp/htdocs folder is used (and redirects to /htdocs/dashboard)
As soon as a section is added to file httpd-vhosts.conf, for instance
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName customer01.localhost
DocumentRoot "D:/Customers/Customer01/httpdocs"
<Directory "D:/Customers/Customer01/httpdocs">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And the proper amendments are made to .../etc/hosts. http://localhost stops working as it now redirects to D:/Customers/Customer01/httpdocs ignoring the ServerName setting in httpd.conf.
Is this by design?
If, however, in addition to the ServerName setting in httpd.conf the following is added to httpd-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
things are fine again.
Why is the extra vhost needed as the global ServerName is already set in httpd.conf? Is this something the ApacheFriends should add to vhost by default?
