XOOPS installation: Adding a virtual host

What is the interest of using virtual hosts (VH)?
This allows you to host several websites and with each of them, a different root directory.

Without virtual host, we would have, for 2 sites xoops-tests and xoops-production :
With virtual host, we will have, for these 2 sites, xoops-tests and xoops-production :
Now we will create a virtual host.


Server name : xoops-tests.local
Root document : D:\web\projets-web\xoops-tests\www



The system tells you that you must now update the hosts file on your machine so that the browser can find this URL.

Launching the HostsEditor tool


Just follow these steps:
1 Enter the domain name: xoops-tests.local
2 Enter the local IP address of your machine: 127.0.0.1
3 Enter a comment: Site local xoops-tests
4 Add the entry by clicking on the icon
5 Activate the entry if you have not already done so
6 Save the file by clicking on the icon



That's it! The virtual host is now configured.
Note: the tool actually edits the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

You can of course repeat the operation to create other virtual hosts.

There is only one step left before starting the XOOPS installation: copying the XOOPS installation files.

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