A Path Less Taken

Web development is a very common hobby. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. Whether it is or not, I’m a web developer. As such, I spend a fair amount of my spare time reading about web development, watching videos about web development and for sure doing web development. As I set out to install my development tools on my new computer I thought I would chronicle the process. If you’re interested in setting up your own web development platform using mostly open source tools then read on and check out my approach.

After acquiring a new domain I had to set up the Virtual Host in Apache. I went to httpd.conf and uncommented the Virtual Hosts Include line which includes the conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file. Then I edited the vhosts file and added the following block:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
     DocumentRoot "c:/apache/mydomain"
     ServerName mydomain.com
     <Directory "c:/apache/mydomain">
          Allow from all
     </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then I restarted the Apache service and my new domain worked. My thanks to this post for guidance that lead to the Directory directive included above.