AWS XAMPP Virtual Host configuration

First need to make sure AWS instance is up and running. Then need to assign an elastic IP to the Instance. Because of this elastic IP, services can access the instance directly.

First, need to edit httpd.conf

Sudo vi /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf

Around line 487 need to remove the comment and allow httpd-vhosts.conf

# Virtual hosts
Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then need to create a custom domain in the hosts file.

sudo vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.5 kingalawaka.com <new line >
#don't touch other existent values
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

This file is used to locate the host.

Then need to create vitual host

sudo vi /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

file should look like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs"
    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
    ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
    <Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin 123pasindumanisha@gmail.com
    DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/mysite"
    ServerName kingalawaka.com
    ServerAlias www.kingalawaka.com
    DirectoryIndex index.html
    <Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs/mysite">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order Deny,Allow
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</virtualHost>

After saving the file

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

if in case Apache service not stopped

sudo netstat -nap | grep :80

this will list down all the processes using port 80. Then from that, using process ID can kill the process.

sudo kill 980

then try to restart the lampp server.