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The usage of ((https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/ virtual hosts)) in XAMPP is the practice of running more than one web site (that targets local resources) on a single machine.

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Virtual hosts are IP-based, meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or "name-based", meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address. This practice using XAMPP comes in handy when you want to simulate a production environment (however working in dev environment) locally accessing to your project by a normal URL in the browser.

To setup a custom virtual host, we need to follow these steps:

===Allow virtual hosts===

By default, XAMPP won't use the ##httpd-vhosts.conf## file (the location of the virtual hosts), therefore we need to indicate that this file will be included during the runtime of Apache.

**/opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf**
%%# Virtual hosts
#Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf %%
Proceed to modify the line uncommenting that line:
%%# Virtual hosts
Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf %%

===Create a custom domain in the hosts file of your system===

You need to create a custom domain where our apache virtual host will point to. This domain will be normally an ip (127.0.0.xx based) and a custom name.

In this example, our IP will be ##127.0.0.3## and the domain ##myproject##. So finally, our hosts file will look like:

**/etc/hosts**
%%127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.0.3	myproject

#don't touch other existent values
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters %%

===Add the virtual host path===

**/opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf**
%%<VirtualHost 127.0.0.3:80>
  DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/my-project"
  DirectoryIndex index.php

  <Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs/my-project">
	Options All
	AllowOverride All
	Require all granted
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost> %%

===Test your virtual host===

Start apache and mysql (entire XAMPP).
Navigate in your browser to ##~http://myproject/## or ##~http://127.0.0.3/##.