Step 1) Open hosts file in notepad or text
editor and add your host names in that file.
On a separate line enter 127.0.0.1,
followed by some space and the name of the virtual host you want to register in
DNS.
For example:
127.0.0.1 dizzyworld.benefits.com
127.0.0.1 dizzyworld.messaging.com
Add any further virtual hosts, each one on
a separate line and pointing to the same IP address (127.0.0.1). Save the hosts
file, and close it.
Step 2) Now Open in notepad and edit httpd.conf file in conf folder of Apache
home.
Goto
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf
And Uncomment the following line in the
Virtual hosts Include section
#Virtual hosts
Include
conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Save and close it.
Step 3) Open httpd-vhosts.conf in notepad
and add the virtual hosts configurations in that file.
Goto C:\Program Files\Apache Software
Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\extra\
Open httpd-vhosts.conf file and following lines.
NameVirtualHost
dizzyworld.benefits.com:80
<VirtualHost
dizzyworld.benefits.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dizzyworld.benefits.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache
Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/ dizzyworld.benefits.com "
ServerName dizzyworld.benefits.com
ServerAlias www. dizzyworld.benefits.com
ErrorLog "logs/ dizzyworld.benefits.com
-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/ dizzyworld.benefits.com
-access.log" common
RedirectMatch 301 ^/$ /benefits
Include conf/extra/benefits.conf
<Directory
/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost
dizzyworld.messaging.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@ dizzyworld.messaging.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache
Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/ dizzyworld.messaging.com
ServerName dizzyworld.messaging.com
ErrorLog "logs/ dizzyworld.messaging.com
-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/ dizzyworld.messaging.com
-access.log" common
RedirectMatch 301 ^/$ /messaging
Include conf/extra/messaging.conf
<Directory
/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
benefits.conf
messaging.conf
Now save and check the syntax of the both httpd.conf and httpd-vhost.conf by using the following commands.
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd -S
Step 4) Now restart the Apache Webserver using the following command
C:\Program Files\Apache Software
Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd -k
restart
Step 5) Access the virtual host names you configured, it should be work now.
Open Browser and type the URL http://dizzyworld.benefits.com/ (it will redirected to benefits application)
