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Posted by: newwebdesigner Aug 18 2014, 03:09 PM

I am having a odd error with Apache 2.4. I installed it, everything should be good, I start it, and I get a 404 error on localhost.I am new to all this, I am using the port 8080 but if I try localhost:8080 is still doesn't work. I don't have a clue as to what is wrong.

Posted by: newwebdesigner Aug 18 2014, 03:12 PM

nvm- I reinstalled everything and it is fine,so ignore this!

Posted by: newwebdesigner Aug 18 2014, 03:43 PM

Okay, now I have another problem. So now I am trying to make it instead of localhost, mywebsite.localhost:8080, but it is not working. When I go into Cmd and try to view the errors in the C:\Apache24\bin and do httpd.exe, a windows popup appears and says Apache 24 has stoped working. Any ideas?

Posted by: Christian J Aug 19 2014, 03:54 AM

I don't know if/how you can use the format "mywebsite.localhost", instead I use http://mywebsite1/ http://mywebsite2/ etc for my local web sites.


How did you configure Apache to map the above URL to the directory of your web site files?

Posted by: pandy Aug 19 2014, 05:04 AM

Yea, you can do that. You set it up with <VirtualHost> in httpd.conf. I'd have to read the details up in the documentation, but as I recall it's pretty straightforward.

newwebdesigner, what have you done to make the sub work? Show us.

Posted by: newwebdesigner Aug 19 2014, 10:25 AM

Christian, I was watching a helpful video that made it work with mywebsite.localhost.Pandy- I tried that all with vituralhost,i don't understand why it is not working.
If you want to see the code, here is a snipit because I know if I copied the whole httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf it would be very long post.
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mywebsite.localdomain:8080
DocumentRoot "c:/Users/MyUser/mywebsite"
ServerName mywebsite.localdomain:8080
ErrorLog "logs/mywebsite.localdomain:8080-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/mywebsite.localdomain:8080-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

And then here is the line in the httpd.conf that I had to edit:

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Also, oddly enough, even when I stop apache localhost:8080 is still up, with "it works!"

Posted by: pandy Aug 19 2014, 11:29 AM

IIRC correctly you must have an entry for each domain/subdomain.

Something like so.

I didn't quite follow everything in your example, so I stuck to localhost. See if that works and if it does you can use it as a starting point.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 19 2014, 12:01 PM

Is the above from httpd.conf? I don't put my VirtualHost directives in there (on Apache 2.2), instead I put them in the httpd-vhosts.conf file:


(details may vary), combined with entries in Windows' hosts file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts like these:


I haven't tried this for years, so don't rely too much on my "advice". No idea if it will work with the "foo.localhost" format.


Probably just a cached page in the browser.

Posted by: pandy Aug 19 2014, 03:35 PM

So I guess that has changed. Haven't used the latest Apache on my own machine.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 19 2014, 04:33 PM

No my Apache 2.2 is from 2007 or so.

Posted by: pandy Aug 19 2014, 04:47 PM

Hm, I'm pretty sure I did it in httpd.conf. Didn't touch very much else. Maybe it works in either file?

Posted by: Christian J Aug 19 2014, 06:06 PM

According to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html it seems you can use multiple VirtualHost directives in it.

For some reason I can't find anything about httpd-vhosts.conf in the Apache documentation, while lots of other sites mention it.

Posted by: imort Jun 18 2016, 08:06 AM

I think that you need to add the 'mywebsite.localdomain' domain to your Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts file too.
Your local PC just didn't aware about that domain I suppose.