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This is almost a tutorial for myself, because on and off for the last few month I’ve been trying to get a Virtual Host set up on my local Windows 7 machine. Currently I am using XAMPP to run Apache and MySql, but it requires all local hosted directories to run under the “localhost” site, for example: http://localhost/demo or http://localhost/clientdomain.

Really there is nothing wrong with the above, but I’ve got a few WordPress multisite installs running that mimic live sites that use wildcard DNS with sub-domains. So dealing with a local sub-directories becomes hard to test and build when the live site is running sub-domains.

So, this post will cover how I got sub-directory multisite installs working in Windows with XAMPP. I’ll also list some great posts which help me get to my final goal.
The Steps

    First I am going to assume you’re using a Windows machine and have XAMPP installed.

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1. Launch Notepad++ and open the hosts file located at C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
127.0.0.1 name_of_your_site

2.In Notepad++ open the Apache configuration file located at C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf 

  <VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
  </VirtualHost>
  <VirtualHost *>

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1. Go to C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php
2. change password here $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']='root';

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I. First disable grant tables
stop the MySQL service through Administrator tools, Services.
Modify the my.ini configuration file (assuming default paths) located in C:\xampp\mysql\bin

In the SERVER SECTION, under [mysqld], add the following line:
skip-grant-tables

... so that you have
# SERVER SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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mysql -p -u root dbname < dbname.sql

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$upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
$upluad_url = $upload_dir['baseurl'];                  

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https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/configuring-xdebug.html

[XDebug]
zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
;xdebug.profiler_append = 0
;xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
;xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0
;xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"
;xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_enable = 1

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Go here https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/enabling-php-support.html#configure_php_at_product_level

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copy/pate phpinfo information into this form
http://xdebug.org/wizard.php

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[XDebug]
zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
;xdebug.profiler_append = 0
;xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
;xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0
;xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"
;xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = "127.0.0.1"