How to install wamp server and config virtual host

By Huỳnh Kiên Trung

How to install wamp server ? How to config virtual host on your local?

1. Install wamp server:

• Step 1:

• - Download wamp server from http://www.wampserver.com/dl.php

• After download complete, go to step 2

• Step 2:

• - Open file install wamp server from your download location and install it
• - Choose your location you want to store wamp server ( I think keep default setting )

• - Click next and next to continue and finish to complete install. ( should keep all default setting )

• Step 3:

• - When finish install, you’ll see icon of wamp on your taskbar like below image

• - You can open wamp from Start -> All program -> Wamp Server -> start wamp server
• - To test install working correctly, open your browser and type http://localhost/, if you see home page of wamp server, you installed success, else: return to step 1 Config virtual host

• Step 1:

• - Right click to icon wamp server on your taskbar, choose Apache -> click httpd.conf

• - Enable mod rewrite and mod vhost
  #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
  replace to
  LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
• - Find
  #LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
  replace to
  LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
• - Find
  #Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
  replace t
  Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
• - Find
  #Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
  replace t
  Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
• - Save all change

• Step 2: Config path of virtual host

• - Open folder store conf in <wamp location>\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\extra ( ex: C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\extra )
• - Open file httpd-userdir.conf ( store website location )
• - Add all line below to end of file
  <Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/My Website">
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>
• Change
• <Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/My Website"> to <Directory "your website location">
• Ex: <Directory "D:\Trung\MyProjects\silverstripe">, if you have many website in folder MyProjects like me, you can config Directory is D:\Trung\MyProjects, it’ll apply config for all sub folders of MyProjects

• Step 3:

• - Open file httpd-vhosts.conf ( config name of virtual host )
• - Ctrl+ A and remove all content
• - Add this content to config your localhost
• NameVirtualHost *:80
• <VirtualHost *:80>
• ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.localhost
• DocumentRoot "C:\wamp\www"
• ServerName localhost
• </VirtualHost>
• -  If you not install wamp on C, you must change DocumentRoot to <your wamp>\www
• - Next, to config your new local URL, just copy all lines from <VirtualHost >….</VirtualHost >
• - Change DocumentRoot to your website location ( ex: DocumentRoot "D:\Trung\MyProjects\silverstripe" )
• - Change ServerName to your website name ( ex:  ServerName silverstripe.dev)

• Step 4:
• - Open window host file ( can find in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc )
• - Add your website name like this ( 127.0.0.1    silverstripe.dev )



• - Right click icon wamp server on taskbar and click restart
• - When wamp server done, you can open browser and run your website with new domain

I hope this tutorial can help you install wamp server and config virtual host success