How to Manage Multiple Web Projects With Subdomains — November 22, 2008 (5 Comments)
Tags: Apache, how-to, Internet, localhost, PHP, process, web, WWW, XAMPP
Most web projects are initially done locally. When doing multiple web projects on the local computer (the ‘localhost’) you run in to the problem of managing them. This is because only one web server can run at a time on the standard web port. Well… you can run multiple instances of the same web server on different ports. But that’s not the way forward if you are serious about testing, etc. An alternative is to make directories and use folder names as part of the URL. This however results ugly URL names like localhost/project_name and framework-based projects render issues on production environments. Read the full story →