Create Sub Domain - Apache Virtual Host on LocalHost

Question

My Question in the title may be wrong, but I have no other Idea how to word it. (Experts please help with this?).

Basically sub domains works on my Development Machine when I got to URL http://subdomain.localhost. What I am trying to achieve is loading that same website using http://subdomain.jacques. jacques being the name of my computer.

This is what I have in my hosts file in windows.

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost localhost jacques localhost subdomain.127.0.0.1 subdomain.localhost subdomain.localhost subdomain.localhost subdomain.jacques subdomain.localhost 

This is what I have in the vhosts.conf file.

ServerName localhost DocumentRoot "c:\web" <VirtualHost jacques:80 jacques *:80> <Directory "c:\web"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory> ServerName localhost ServerAlias localhost DocumentRoot "c:\web" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost subdomain.jacques *:80> ServerName subdomain.localhost ServerName subdomain.jacques ServerAlias subdomain.localhost ServerAlias subdomain.jacques DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\subdomain" DirectoryIndex index.html index.php <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\subdomain"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

What I have tried from reading the documentation on the Apache website:

• Adding the PC name to the <VirtualHost> tag.
• Adding another ServerName/ServerAlias to the Virtual Host
• Adding entries into the hosts file in Windows

I have no idea what I am doing wrong, so even if you can answer the question, please point me in the right direction.

System Details

• OS: Windows 10
• Apache Version: 2.4
• PHP Version: 5.4 (Not sure if this is useful or even relevant.)
• Apache Install Path c:\amp\apache
• PHP Install Path c:\amp\php

Answer 1

This is what I have in my hosts file in windows.

this is wrong format. Must be - "ip address fqdn"

127.0.0.1 localhost jacques subdomain.localhost subdomain.jacques 

As for virtual hosts

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName localhost DocumentRoot "c:\web" <Directory "c:\web"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName subdomain.localhost ServerAlias subdomain.jacques DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\subdomain" DirectoryIndex index.html index.php <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\subdomain"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

You can use domain (and any subdomain) lvh.me for testing purpose. As it resolves to 127.0.0.1. So there is no need to edit hosts file

# host lvh.me lvh.me has address 127.0.0.1 lvh.me mail is handled by 10 mail.lvh.me. # host subdomain.lvh.me subdomain.lvh.me has address 127.0.0.1