Getting 404 error in every laravel project after adding a virtual host in xampp.

Hi @ravish

Can you show us the whole C:/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts and C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file?

Can you also give us a link to the Youtube video?

@mvd this is the only code in both the files. Every other lines are prefixed with # symbol, indicating its a comment, if I am not wrong.

Link of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IQOm9-Z6bw

@ravish This is how I have mine

httpd-vhosts

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/blog/public"
    ServerName blog.me
    ErrorLog "C:/xampp/htdocs/blog/public/error.log"
    CustomLog "C:/xampp/htdocs/blog/public/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

hosts looks the same to me, did you try and restart the apache?

Hi @ravish

You should have one block like that for every project you have, and the same with hosts file.

For example, for 2 projects project1 and project2 you could have:

httpd-vhosts

<VirtualHost *:80> 
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/project1/public"
    ServerName project1.test
    ServerAlias *.project1.test
    <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/project1/public">
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80> 
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/project2/public"
    ServerName project2.test
    ServerAlias *.project2.test
    <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/project2/public">
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and then at your hosts file:

127.0.0.1    project1.test
127.0.0.1    project2.test

Remember to restart your Apache server after this modifications

@marianomoreyra so do u mean to say i cannot use localhost/... urls with a virtual host setup? Is it like i can use only one of the approach?

@ravish that's correct. once you use virtual hosts, your localhost goes to the first named host as you discovered.

@ravish if those projects had no domain and you were accessing them with http://localhost/project-name then you should use a different root folder for project1, outside your htdocs.

Also, I think you should define a default configuration for localhost although I’m not sure right now if it’s necessary (and I’m not in front of my laptop to search through apache documentation)

@ravish if you have your DocumentRoot pointing to your htdocs directory, your localhost apps should works as always.

This is what I have (adapted to your path), and it works both ways for me:

DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>