If you are installing WAMP on your Windows desktop computer, there are some things you can do to make it a better development environment and more natural to use.
In your c:/windows/system22/drivers/etc/hosts file, make the following changes:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.iTest.com iTest.com
This will force all references to itest.com and www.itest.com to go to WAMP. For Windows 7 users, you will need to run Notepad as an administrator to change this file.
Enable virtual hosts in the httpd.conf file:
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Add the following to your httpd-vhosts.conf file. Replace the internal domain name with yours.
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
# Default virtual host that will bring up the WampServer home page
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "c:\wamp\www"
</VirtualHost>
# Definition for iTest.com, our virtual host
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName iTest.com
#subdirectories and www canonical
ServerAlias www.iTest.com *.iTest.com
#the physical location
DocumentRoot "C:\wamp\www\iTest.com"
ServerAdmin webmaster@iTest.com
ErrorLog "logs/iTest.com"
CustomLog "logs/iTest.com-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
If you want to add more virtual hosts, just repeat the recipe above.
