Using Xampp - changing 'http://localhost:8080' to 'http://intranet/

I’m using Xampp for development & testing, but I’d like the browser to show http://intranet/ instead of http://localhost:8080/ for a specific page. Only one specific page should be rewritten this way.

How would I do this, use mod_rewrite or something else?

Note: I’m having Friendly URLs enabled and I don’t want to break anything...

Thanks in advance!

is this a linux or windows?

You can add new host in to the hosts file of your computer.

In windows, look at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and in linux, I think it’s in /etc/hosts

In that file, add:

127.0.0.1       intranet

And you need to also map it in your apache httpd.conf like:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
       ServerName intranet
       DocumentRoot "C:/your/docroot"
</VirtualHost>

EDIT: oh and change apache to run in 80 port instead of 8080 if you want to use just http://intranet.. it’s set in the httpd.conf too.

Also google for more info on apache configuring.. there’s lots of things you can do with virtual hosts for example..

Quote from: doze at Mar 10, 2009, 07:41 AM

is this a linux or windows?

You can add new host in to the hosts file of your computer.

In windows, look at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and in linux, I think it’s in /etc/hosts

In that file, add:

127.0.0.1 intranet

And you need to also map it in your apache httpd.conf like:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName intranet
DocumentRoot "C:/your/docroot"
</VirtualHost>

EDIT: oh and change apache to run in 80 port instead of 8080 if you want to use just http://intranet.. it’s set in the httpd.conf too.

Also google for more info on apache configuring.. there’s lots of things you can do with virtual hosts for example..

I’m using Xampp on a Windows host. I want to show something, but I need a way to camouflage the link... thought about using frames, but that would be a crime to the nice xhtml/css design...