Need help with virtual host.

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<virtualhost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@doogals.home
    DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals"   
    ServerName doogals.home
    ServerAlias *.doogals.home
    ErrorLog "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals/logs/doogals.home-error.log"
    CustomLog "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals/logs/doogals.home-access.log" common
    <Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals">
        AllowOverride All
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Code (ApacheConf):

 

Not quit able to understand what exact help you are looking for?

 

Yes Sorry about that. I don't know what happened there, one minute I was creating a post, the next it had gone. Here is what was meant to be in it:

I have this setup on a desktop which I'm trying to set up as a local server. This is the software I'm using:

Xampp 3.2.2 compiled Nov 12 2015
Apache 2.4.25 (win32) Open SSL 1.0.2j Ports 80, 443 php 5.6.30
OS Windows 10 latest version & updates

My Vhost.conf is:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
 DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
 ServerName localhost 
</VirtualHost>

<virtualhost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@doogals.home
 DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals" 
 ServerName doogals.home
 ServerAlias *.doogals.home
 ErrorLog "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals/logs/doogals.home-error.log"
  CustomLog "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals/logs/doogals.home-access.log" common
 <Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals">
 AllowOverride All
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Code (markup):

Hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 doogals.home
192.168.1.17 doogals.home

Networks:
loopback 127
doogals.home 192.168.1.17

From my server:
if I use the IP address I get "It works" displayed
Using "doogals.home" I get an index file in hdocs displayed
Using localhost I get the, correct, index file from the doogals directory displayed.

From a local laptop:
If I use the IP address I get the index file from doogals displayed.
Using "doogals.home" I get "can't be found" message.

I have studied the virtualhost docs 'till my head spins. Why can't I get a response from doogals.home?

 

Try changing the

NameVirtualHost: 127.0.0.1:80

Code (markup):

to

NameVirtualHost: *:80

Code (markup):

You can probably also just lose the

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

Code (markup):

unless you need to have access to the web-host root from the browser (which you shouldn't) - if you need to keep it, remove the 127.0.0.1 and change the full VirtualHost-group to this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<virtualhost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@doogals.home
DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals"
ServerName doogals.home
ServerAlias *.doogals.home
ErrorLog "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals/logs/doogals.home-error.log"
CustomLog "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals/logs/doogals.home-access.log" common
<Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs/doogals">
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Code (markup):

 

That is great. I have done a copy and past to Notpad++ and will do the same to my conf file.

I have resolved the problem I was having. It was another one of those dumb newbee things. I prefix doogals.home with http:// in my hosts file.

Kind regards John