WAMP httpd.config redirect

Question

I'm using wamp on localhost at c:\wamp\www\.
The project located under: c:\wamp\www\MyProj\public (root).
In file1.php (located in root) I have a link to some fake url (/services/.....).
I'm trying to redirect that url to other file service_router.php (in the same direction as file1.php).

I'm doing that in httpd.config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName 127.0.0.1  
    DocumentRoot c:\wamp\www\
    <Directory "c:\wamp\www\">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/MyProj/public/services/*
    RewriteRule . /MyProj/public/service_router.php

</VirtualHost>

But my WAMP refuses to restart.
What's wrong with my configurations?

Answer 1

Can I make a few suggestions.

If you want to use Virtual Hosts, and I consider that a very good idea. You need first to make sure that localhost still works and secondly it is a good idea to move you actual projects out of the \wamp\ folder structure.

So this would be a good starting point for your first ( of many ) VHOSTS

First create a new folder structure somewhere on any of your drives for example

C:\websites\project1\www

Now copy your project to the www folder.

Now setup the vhosts

# must be first VHOST so the that localhost and the wamp menu page still work
# Also makes this the default site so any randon hacks on your ip address
# will come here and hopefully be rejected because it only 'Allows' access 
# from this machine ( see Allow Deny )
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "D:/wamp/www"
    ServerName localhost
    ServerAlias localhost

    <Directory  "C:/wamp/www">
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/websites/project1/www"
    ServerName project1.dev
    ServerAlias www.dqsc.old
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

    <Directory "C:/websites/project1/www">
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Unless you actually want to make this site available to the World can I suggest that you dont use Allow from all.

Try using or the second Allow line if you want to see your site from any machine on your internal network, just use the first 3 of the 4 quartiles of your ip address and it will allow access from any ip starting with those 3 quartiles.

Order Deny,Allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 
   Allow from 192.168.0

Now you need to amend your HOSTS file so that windows knows about your new domain name.

Edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add the new site name project1.dev like so, you will have to launch your editor 'Run as Administrator' as this file is protected by windows :-

127.0.0.1 project1.dev

Now restart the "DNS Client" service to refresh the windows dns cache so it see's your new domain name. Start a command window, again "Run as Administrator".

net stop "DNS Client"
net start "DNS Client"

You should now be able to enter http://project1.dev in a browser and it will find you new site.

Finally, once you test that your site is working, put the url rewrite coding in a .htaccess file in the root of your new project.

C:\websites\www\project1\.htaccess