How to Create Virutal Host in Xampp For Clonning of WordPress or OtherSite on Local Machine
Since Creating a Clone for the purpose of Testing or Development, we have to perform many different task like changing the host names especially in WordPress. Hence in this tutorial I will show how to skips old techniques of changing host URLs in the site. Instead of replacing the URL - Site/Host Address from the cloned environment, we will create our Local Machine as the Virtual Host i.e. it will behave as the same site as of production. So dont need to change the URL/Address from the enviroment. Following are the steps using Xampp Step 1) C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ Open the "hosts" file : 127.0 . 0.1 localhost 127.0 . 0.1 test.com 127.0 . 0.1 example.com Step 2) xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf <VirtualHost *: 80 > DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/test/ ServerName www.test.com </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *: 80 > DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/example/ ServerName www.example.com </VirtualHost> ...