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How to create virtual hosts in Windows (wamp) web server?

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:44:14 +0000

Intro

Creating virtual hosts is the better way to simulate the hosting server in your own development server. Simply your localhost folders will act as domains where you can easily test several sites in the local server as http://mysite.local or http://mytest.mysite. To create this kind of virtual hosts or virtual domains in your Apache server on Windows using WAMP server is just a matter of editing few files. Find the walk-through below.

Step 1 - Setting up the 'host' file

Find the ‘host’ file in ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc’ folder (or where you installed windows)
Open it with Notepade or any text editor.
You will see following lines

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com         # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       localhost 
::1             localhost

Add the desired domain names in the end of the text (after the default localhost settings indicated above) it can be anything with or without extension (see the examples below)

How to create a nice Twitter icon using Illustrator and Photoshop

admin — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:35:58 +0000

To create a twitter icon, you don't have to be an artist or expert in illustrator. By understanding some basic principals of gradients and transparency, you can create an excellent modern twitter icon to use in your blog. Before we dive in to the steps, look at the final version of the twitter icon we are going to create. I'm going to show the basic steps of drawing in illustrator and we shall move on to refine and get the final output in photoshop.

How to import blogger posts to wordpress?

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:55:01 +0000

To import posts & comments (almost all data) from a Blogger account to Worpress is an easy process. Well, to do that we have to setup an account in a remote server (localhost worpress blogs won’t work for this and will throw a SSL error) First of all, login in to your blogger account in [...]

A simple foggy banner for your blog – in 8 steps!

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:27:20 +0000

Here I'm going to show you how to create a simple foggy, grungy discolored banner for your blog/website. The final composition will look like this: Creating this kind of banners is pretty simple as long as we find some source images to work with. There are advanced montages which will turn in to surreal type, sci-fi and so on. But this one is a basic one so, we need only few images.

Site featured in | Wooki.es – CSS & Web Site Gallery

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:57:25 +0000

I’m glad to see that wooki.es has featured my portfolio site in their gallery website. They said in their email that they found my site using CSS in good way. Thank you wookies for you the appreciations and featuring my site in the gallery. Visit the link below to view the entry: Smriyaz | Wooki.es [...]

Site featured in | Wooki.es – CSS & Web Site Gallery

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:57:25 +0000

Best of March 2009 | CSS Gallery and CSS Showcase – CSSPerk.com

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:10:11 +0000

It’s a great honor that my portfolio site is listed in the best of March websites. They said in their email they loved few sites very much from hundreds of sites submitted. I’m really proud to be one of them they’ve chosen as best. Thank you very much for this guys. hats off to you. [...]

Best of March 2009 | CSS Gallery and CSS Showcase – CSSPerk.com

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:10:11 +0000

Site featured in cssWOW.com:: CSS Gallery

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:26:43 +0000

It’s a great honor to see my portfolio is featured in cssWOW with WOW factor. They pick nice websites with valid CSS and feature in the gallery. I really thank them for this great job they have done. And of course they have given an excellent intro about the site and author. I really appreciate [...]

Site featured in Webdesign.fm list!

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:13:24 +0000

I’m very happy to see my portfolio site is listed in webdesign.fm site. the list is for 25 pitch black inspirational websites. All of them are seem great inspiration. follow this URL to see it: http://www.webdesign.fm/pitch-black-25-inspirational-black-websites/ Thanks for the poster in Webdesign.fm.