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YellowJ
YellowJ

Reputation: 321

How to access multiple virtual hosts in my localhost from my mobile phone/another machine

I'm creating an android app that uses 2 virtual hosts. One for the api and one for the repository of all the images uploaded in my app. I can access one of them without using virtual hosts and through my laptop's IP address only. But I want to access them both through virtual hosts so that I dont have to change it when I upload it to the live server. Please help me how to do it.

Here's the snippet of my XAMPP "httpd-vhosts.conf" file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myprojectapi"
    ServerName api.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias api.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myimages"
    ServerName images.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias images.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

and heres the snippet of my windows "hosts" file:

127.0.0.1 api.mydomain.com
127.0.0.1 images.mydomain.com

I can only access one of them from my android phone but only through my laptop's IP address and if i comment out one of the vhosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myprojectapi"
    ServerName api.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias api.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

#<VirtualHost *:80>
#    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myimages"
#    ServerName images.mydomain.com
#   ServerAlias images.mydomain.com
#</VirtualHost>

and my hosts file: 

127.0.0.1 api.mydomain.com
#127.0.0.1 images.mydomain.com

but in order for my app to work properly i need to access the two projects through Named Virtual Hosts at the same time. What should I do to make this work? Please help.

UPDATE:

Im already using different ports but it still won't work.

Here's the snippet of my updated vhost file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myprojectapi"
    ServerName api.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias api.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8081>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myimages"
    ServerName images.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias images.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

and heres the snippet in my updated hosts file: 

192.168.2.5 api.mydomain.com
192.168.2.5 images.mydomain.com

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4633

Answers (1)

Ali Sherafat
Ali Sherafat

Reputation: 3855

If you want to get access to your Virtual Hosts inside emulators (like GenyMotion or any other) follow bellow steps:

1: Open up httpd.conf file

2: Choose different ports for your different virtual hosts and make sure to add Listen **** there

Listen 80
Listen 8081

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myprojectapi"
    ServerName api.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias api.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8081>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myimages"
    ServerName images.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias images.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

3: Save the httpd.conf file and restart your apache services.

4: Open the browser in your emulator and go to http://10.0.2.2:8081/ you will see your images.mydomain.com there :)

Upvotes: 2

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