xampp laravel blank page when using vhost windows - windows

Question

Trying to use xampp for my virtual host on Windows 10.
But when I open up my project in browser it's a blank page. Not an error message, just blank.
Can anyone help?
Here's my VHosts
# Virtual Hosts
#
# Required modules: mod_log_config
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ##ServerName or ##ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
##<VirtualHost *:80>
##ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host.example.com
##DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host.example.com"
##ServerName dummy-host.example.com
##ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error.log"
##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access.log" common
##</VirtualHost>
##<VirtualHost *:80>
##ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host2.example.com
##DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host2.example.com"
##ServerName dummy-host2.example.com
##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
##</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:3000>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:3000>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/projectlara2/public/"
ServerName projectlara2.test
</VirtualHost>
HERE'S MY Hosts File
# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1:3000 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost projectlara2.test
::1 localhost projectlara2.test
Not quite sure what else I'm supposed to write here. It says I have a post that's mostly code so I should add more details but there aren't any more details. Hopefully this is enough extra writing because this is a bit annoying.

Answer 1

You have not provided the virtual host properly in your windows host file. You need to just change a little in host file and probably it will solve your error.
change your entry of virtual host in host file from 127.0.0.1 localhost projectlara2.test to 127.0.0.1 projectlara2.test and ::1 localhost projectlara2.test to ::1 projectlara2.test.
The problem is although you are using virtual host for the project you are declaring localhost with it. Just write the ip and domain name of virtual host, nothing else.

Answer 2

On your Windows10 hosts file use this only:
127.0.0.1 localhost wiki.com projectlara2.test
Then in your vhosts file you can do this:
<VirtualHost projectlara2.test:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/projectlara2/public/"
ServerName projectlara2.test
ErrorLog "logs/error.log"
CustomLog "logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
ServerAdmin, ErrorLog, CustomLog are optional and you can set them up with a real path if you want to, you aren't specifing the server name on your first line on your VirtualHost, when you specify it like this *: you are saying that all requests should point to the VirtualHost you are about to define, so if you want more than 1 VirtualHost you should be more specific like I showed. Hope it works! :D