Hi I am on windows and I am using xampp and Laravel

I have multiple laravel apps and I want to run them at the same time and make them accessible to other PC on my local network.

Is it possible ? if yes, how ?

I want also, if possible, to run these apps without php artisan serve command.

I did it for one app using the httpd-vhosts.conf of xampp but didn't know how to do it for multiple apps. So what I did is I created a virtual host to make one app accessible directly from another PC through browser using IP address, so is there a way to create multiple virtual hosts like this at the same time ? or there is a better way ?

Thanks.

CodePudding user response：

Go to xampp\apache\conf\extra and open httpd-vhosts.conf file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/laravel2/public"
    ServerName laravel2.dev
    <Directory "/Users/laravel2/public">
            AllowOverride All
            Options FollowSymLinks  Indexes
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/laravel1/public"
    ServerName laravel1.dev
    <Directory "/Users/laravel1/public">
            AllowOverride All
            Options FollowSymLinks  Indexes
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Go => C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

127.0.0.1  localhost laravel1.dev
127.0.0.1  localhost laravel2.dev

Restart your apache. It's working for me.

CodePudding user response：

In this case, I recommend you to use Laragon instead of xampp.

Some of Laragon Features:

• Easy to use.
• Use app.test instead of localhost/app and no need extra configuration for this.
• No need to run php artisan serve command to run laravel project
• You can share your local project with anyone over the internet in just matter of some clicks
• You can move Laragon folder around (to another disks, to another laptops, sync to Cloud,…) without any worries.

Anyway, I'm using Laragon all the time.