Local Dev Setup With Wildcard Subdomain Vhost

When setting up new local sites for development, skip the hassle with this game-changing setup that uses a single vhost with a wildcard subdomain so you never have to mess with vhosts ever again.

Don’t hassle with setting up a vhost every time
Don’t waste time adding more rows to your hosts file
Don’t mess with developing a site in a subdirectory where absolute links starting with “/” take you back to your localhost dashboard.

Instead, use this dynamic vhost configuration that takes all subfolders of your workspace and makes them accessible as a subdomain.

httpd-vhosts.conf:

# Virtual Hosts
#
UseCanonicalName Off

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName localhost
 DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www
 <Directory "c:/wamp64/www/">
 Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
 AllowOverride All
 Require local
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName localhost.tv
 ServerAlias *.localhost.tv
 VirtualDocumentRoot "c:/Workspace/%1"
 <Directory "c:/Workspace/">
 Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
 AllowOverride All
 Require local
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#

After that is setup, you just git clone in your workspace folder, you can instantly access that site at http://repo-name.localhost.tv

Localhost.tv is a website that has a wildcard DNS for all subdomains to point to 127.0.0.1 so everyone can use it to point to their own localhost.