Aid in setting up a Virtual Host with Wamp in Windows Vista - wamp

Question

I need some help in setting up this thing.
I followed a tutorial about setting up a virtual host in WAMP which included the following steps:
Opened file httpd.conf in folder C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.6\conf and uncommented the last # of the following statement:
# Virtual hosts
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"
to look like this:
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Opened the file httpd-vhosts.conf in folder C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.6\conf\extra, deleted everything in there and replaced with these codes below:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.jagerseow.servegame.com (WHICH IS A DOMAIN A REGISTERED IN NO-IP)
ServerAlias jagerseow.servegame.com domain
DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www/MP4Public
ErrorLog "C:/wamp/www/MP4Public/logs/error.log"
CustomLog "C:/wamp/www/MP4Public/logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>"
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www
ErrorLog "C:/wamp/www/logs/error.log"
CustomLog "C:/wamp/www/logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Used Notepad to open file hosts in folder C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc on server computer; then, deleted and replaced the default codes with these codes:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 domain
Restarted WAMP and waited until it turned green, which it did ...
Try to connect to my server page by typing domain in the browser and my web page showed up normally. However when anyone, including myself, tries to open it by typing the address (http://www.jagerseow.servegame.com), no page is loaded.
I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit. Anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Change your Virtual Hosts definition to this:-
NameVirtualHost *:80
## must be first so the the wamp menu page loads
## and stray hacks get sent here and ignored because access
## is only allowed from local ips (127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 )
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.jagerseow.servegame.com
ServerAlias jagerseow.servegame.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/MP4Public"
# changed, dont want your logs available under your docroot directory (security)
ErrorLog "C:/wamp/www/logs/MP4Public_error.log"
CustomLog "C:/wamp/www/logs/MP4Public_access.log" common
<Directory "D:/wamp/www/MP4Public">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>"
Now you need to change your hosts file to :-
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 jagerseow.servegame.com
After changing this do the following, or reboot.
Run a command window Run as Administrator and do
net stop "DNS Client"
net start "DNS Client"
This will force a refresh of the DNS Cache and make the new domain name available on your PC.
The hosts file is loaded by windows into its DNS cache. It pre-loads urls and is a bit like a very low function DNS. So this tell the dns cache and therefore your browser etc that jagerseow.servegame.com is found on ip address 127.0.0.1 which is this PC
If you actually did want the universe to be able to see this site, I assume you do as you used Allow from all, you will then have to port forward port 80 on your router to the ip address of the PC running wamp. Also that PC will need a STATIC ip address so it does not change when you reboot. Help for that can be found here PortForward.com