I want to start developing a site locally and later port it to the web. As I'm planning to run a Wordpress Network using Subdomains, I would need to set-up a Xampp installation that would allow me to run a subdomain install.

No idea how to do this and haven't found much info on the web either. Can someone point me in the right direction? I've s开发者_Go百科een people managing to change the URL as well. I can't seem to get past http://localhost.

You need two things first of all, and nothing related to wordpress.

Let´s supose you will use a local url like "your_test_domain.local", so:

#1 Add virtual servers on your xampp httpd-vhosts.conf (xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf).

For example:

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\your_site_folder"
    ServerName your_test_domain.local
    ServerAlias your_test_domain.local
    <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\your_site_folder">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

That means, if you surf to "your_site_folder.local" you will see what´s on the "your_site_folder" folder inside xampp htdocs folder. Right?

#2 and also, you need to edit the hosts file on windows (guess you are using win), that´s on: Windows\System32\drivers\etc\, and add this line:

127.0.0.1   your_test_domain.local

Start apache to take this effect. Same thing for subdomains, you only need to create another virtualhost and another host redirection but for "sub_domain.your_test_domain.local"

So, once you got those things, you also will need some plugin to install on wordpress. I use the Domain Mapping Plugin, that will do the rest, but, that´s another story. Start there and you will learn the rest.

Hope that helps.

Try this link

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23

also watch out for xampp's root index.php file as it has a redirect in it...