vhosts not working on windows 7 using wamp

i'm having trouble setting up vhosts on windows 7. i'm running wamp.

my host file includes:

127.0.0.1 local.tribune.com

i've included httpd-vhosts.conf from within my httpd.conf.

my httpd-vhosts.conf includes:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "c:/Users/Name/My Documents/the tribune/website/local.tribune.com/"
    ServerName local.tribune.com
</VirtualHost>

here's the weird thing..if i remove the 'My ' from the DocumentRoot, then going to localhost in a browser works and i can see phpmyadmin, but i can't see the contents of the directory because the path is incorrect. but soon as i put that 'My ' in the path, the wamp icon never goes white (it stays yellow), and i can't reach localhost or local.tribune.com.

soon as i remove the 'My ' again, localhost will work again.

i've seen multiple posts around this issue on wampserver.com and elsewhere, bu开发者_C百科t none of them answered or resolved. most that are resolved are basic issues like not including or having deleted httpd-vhosts.conf, missing characters, etc.

Its never a good idea to have a space in your directory path. URL Encoding interprets it as: "%20%". I would suggest placing your website files on D:/websites/local.tribune.com

you can read more about URL Encoding here

Hope that helps

solved it. was close before, but just missed it.

in windows 7, the path is NOT:

c:/Users/Name/My Documents/the tribune/website/local.tribune.com

but is actually:

c:/Users/Name/Documents/the tribune/website/local.tribune.com

to prove this, click at the end of a path in a windows explorer window, and the full path is displayed in plain text.

also, just because i've seen some disagreement online, in my experience:

• the drive letter is case insensitive
• the slashes can go either way
• trailing slashes have no effect
• path names CAN have a space in them