Hosting files from a different directory

conobarry

I've just moved over from antiquated XAMPP looking for an easier solution to locally hosting my web projects.

I have Laragon up and running installed on my C: drive, but all my projects are in different directories and not in laragon/www.

For example, I might have projects in the following locations:
C:/laragon/www/project1/index.html
D:/users/me/project2/index.html
D:/users/me/documents/project3/index.html

What I would like to do is to be able to navigate to localhost in my browser and see a list of all these projects. I know this is possible with XAMPP but over complicated. How would I go about this with Laragon?

Pen-y-Fan

Welcome to Laragon! I "found" Laragon over a year ago after trying XAMPP and WAMP and have never looked back.

Laragon "magic" best happens, automatically, from a common root folder. Using your example, if you have all your projects in D:\users\me\www\, with project1, project2 and project3 as subfolders. Set Laragon > menu > preferences > data folder: D:\users\me\www\. Then Laragon will automatically create the host alias project1.test , project2.test and project3.test, and add them to the host file. To navigate to the project open Laragon and start all, then from Laragon menu > www > choose the project to open in your browser.

If you want to keep your projects in their current folders, then explore C:\laragon\etc\apache2\sites-enabled\, you should already see auto.project1.test.conf, copy this file and paste a couple of copies, rename them e.g. manual.project2.test.conf and manual.project3.test.conf, edit them and change them for each proejct e.g.

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/users/me/project2/"
ServerName project2.test
ServerAlias *.project2.test
<Directory "D:/users/me/project2/">
....

Next, You will need to edit your hosts file, (Laragon > H) and manually add the projects:
127.0.0.1 project2.test
127.0.0.1 project3.test

They will then be available by browsing to project2.test and project3.test in your browser.

If you want to navigate to the projects from localhost: edit C:\laragon\www\index.php and add a link to each project, maybe create a list.

I hope this helps.