Wordpress subdomain on localhost

Because of the requirement of a site in the network called 'blog', I had to use sub-domains instead of subfolders. WordPress doesn't allow a subfolder called 'blog'.

Anyway, so I added these changes in my hosts file:

• 127.0.0.1 site1.localhost
• 127.0.0.1 site2.localhost
• 127.0.0.1 blog.localhost

Then I went to my httpd.conf file and added the setup for each individual subdomains for localhost:

For site 1:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    ServerAlias site1.localhost
    Docum开发者_Go百科entRoot "..\htdocs\wordpress\site1"
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html index.htm index.shtml
</VirtualHost>

and so on for site2 and blog. I am a little unsure about using * there. I think something else goes there. :/

I went on to activate multisite in my wp-config file as:

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

But, at the end of the process I'm getting this message:

Because you are using localhost, the sites in your WordPress network must use sub-directories. Consider using localhost.localdomain if you wish to use sub-domains.

What must I do to get subdomains then?

Would really appreciate your help here. Thanks!

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First, the * is a wildcard. Basically, you're telling Apache to listen to port 80 on all IPs pointed at the server. For localhost, no big deal. But if you had multiple IPs pointing at a host, you'd substitute the IP for the * in the VirtualHost declaration.

IE:

NameVirtualHost 123.4.5.6:80
<VirtualHost 123.4.5.6:80>
    ...

Now on to the error message. Basically, WordPress sees "localhost" and assumes you're testing locally and won't be setting up subdomains. My recommendation would be to use a different host and set up your system to act appropriately (Basically, localhost can't have subdomains unless you set up up in a specific way to begin with).

So instead, use site1.local, site2.local, blog.local and so on. Then change your hosts file and httpd.conf file the same (substitute local everywhere you used localhost).