Overview

Virtualhosts allow developers to host multiple applications on their local system.

Using this tool, you configure a virtualhost for each of your applications, and it will create them so that you can start working with them.

Example:

• api.dotkernel.localhost: this could be the endpoint where you host your website's API
• frontend.dotkernel.localhost: this could be domain you host your website's frontend that will consume the API

In the above example, the URLs are built like this:

• the subdomain is the identifier of your application (api/frontend)
• the domain is the identifier of your project (dotkernel)
• the TLD sends the requests to localhost where Apache will route them to their real location

By using the pattern *.localhost for any new virtualhost, you do not need to modify the hosts file in Windows, because these are routed by default.