Virtual Host with Xampp redirecting to dashboard on windows

Question

I am sure I will regret this but I have done tons of research throughout stackoverflow and the almighty google. I am just trying to setup a virtual host for my project and I followed a couple of tutorials for different methodologies but no matter what it either doesn't work at all or just redirects me to the xampp dashboard with the url lavamap.dev/dashboard . Below I have included all the files I have been messing with, and yes I always restart Apache after changes.

Versions:
Windows- 10
Xampp - 3.2.2
Apache- 2.4

httpd-vhosts.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/lavamap"
    ServerName lavamap.dev
    ServerAlias www.lavamap.dev
    <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/lavamap">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

hosts

127.0.0.1   lavamap.dev
127.0.0.1   www.lavamap.dev

I also uncommented the following line from httpd.conf

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Thanks for even taking the time to read this and even more thanks so for any responses! I'll take clues, hints, ideas or a solution.

Answer 1

There is no real answer! As far as I could tell I just uninstalled and reinstalled and it worked fine. The funny part is I did the same steps in my home environment and it only works in firefox and not chrome. I may just be bad with apache but damn it feels a little unstable. I wish I could post an answer that would help other more.

Answer 2

I also faced the same problem. After googling for two days finally i got down to debug. The problem is with how google chrome is treating the url. It is redirecting all your url to https://lavamap.dev/dashboard and for this the port is by default 443. That's why it seems like httpd-vhosts.conf is not working properly. But here comes the other file in action ie httpd-ssl.conf. For any https protocoal the virtual host entries goes in to this file. so you have to make virtual host entry in httpd-ssl.conf. Hopefully it will solve your problem.