Create wildcard subdomain in xampp localhost - laravel

Question

I am trying to create wildcard subdomain in xampp for my local development of Laravel project. So far I am able to change the hosts file and create a virtual host for my domain name.
Here is my hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 lalit-Inspiron-3537
127.0.0.1 mysite.local
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02:
:2 ip6-allrouters
I have enabled virtual hosts in my httpd.conf file
Here is my httpd-vhosts.conf file
# 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.
#
# 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 "/opt/lampp/docs/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 "/opt/lampp/docs/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 *:80>
DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/mysite/public"
ServerName mysite.local
ServerAlias *.mysite.local
<Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs/mysite/public">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I can access my Laravel project at mysite.local. But when I try to access subdomain.mysite.local I get the following error
This site can’t be reached
subdomain.mysite.local’s server DNS address could not be found.
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy, firewall, and DNS configuration
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
Can anyone please help me with this?

Answer 1

I found the solution. As it turns out we cannot use .local for our domain name as it is used by avahi-daemon. So I changed the .local from my domain names,
Host file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 lalit-Inspiron-3537
127.0.0.1 mysite.dev
httpd-vhosts.conf file
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/mysite/public"
ServerName mysite.local
ServerAlias *.mysite.local
<Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs/mysite/public">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And now it's working perfectly.