setup apache virtualhost (windows)

You need to do several steps in order to make this work.

1.) Update the hosts file. On Windows XP, you can find it under c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\. You should already see the first line from below, it takes care of your mentioned other project. - add the additional ones to make any requests to the mentioned virtual hosts routed back to your own machine.

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       foo-bar.com
127.0.0.1       abcdef.com
127.0.0.1       qwerty.com

2.) Update the vhosts file in Apache configuration. Under your XAMPP folder, add the following to apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf and if needed change the ports (i.e. if you use 8080 instead of port 80).

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot C:/xampplite/htdocs/foo-bar/
    ServerName www.foo-bar.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot C:/xampplite/htdocs/abcdef/
    ServerName www.abcdef.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot C:/xampplite/htdocs/qwerty/web/
    ServerName www.qwerty.com
</VirtualHost>

3.) Do a quick configuration check. Open {XAMPP-folder}\apache\conf\httpd.conf your file and make sure that the following part is not commented out by a preceding # character:

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

4.) Restart XAMPP.

... and you should be all setup now. Your other project should be accessible at the URI you mentioned if you just put it under C:/xampplite/htdocs/my-project/.

To get C:/xampp/htdocs/my-project/ working I had to add the following (default?) VirtualHost to apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf (in step 2 of MicE tutorial).

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>