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godzsa
godzsa

Reputation: 2395

How can I start a laravel project outside of "htdocs" folder in xampp?

Is it a way to start a Laravel project in another folder? For example:

instead of C:/xampp/htdocs

to D:/projects/web/project1

So after I download Laravel with composer to my D:/projects/web/project1 folder I want to reach it as: http://project1.local in my browser.

I added 127.0.0.1 project1.local to my hosts but it only opens xampp in the browser.

Suggestions, ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5826

Answers (1)

Ricardo Vergara
Ricardo Vergara

Reputation: 236

You need to indicate to xampp that your site will be sited outside the documentroot folder (where all the sites in your server are located).

In your httpd.conf file add these lines, which will allow to you to access the site via http://localhost/laravel.project:

  Alias /laravel.project "D:/projects/web/project1/public"
    <Directory "D:/projects/web/project1/public">
            Options FollowSymlinks
            AllowOverride none
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

If you want to get access directly, via a uri like http://laravel.project, you must create a VirtualHost.

Upvotes: 5

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