Working locally with two versions (or 2 instances) of XAMPP

I have used XAMPP to develop my website on my PC, then upload what has been developed locally on the online Website. This works fine, specifically to test modifications brought in the ZC code.

I would now like to develop a 2nd website. I would like to use the same methodology.

It is possible to install a 2nd version (or a 2nd instance) of XAMPP on the same PC (in the same partition) without "destroying" what has been installed when the 1st XAMPP instance was installed?

Thanks.

If you want to work with several websites, irrespective of whether they are carts or not, you don't have to install several versions of Xampp.

You can put your websites where you like on your pc, I have them all in My Documents for ease of backups.

Xampp seems to be better placed in the root C:.

Then in the apache hpptd.conf file you look for this section

<IfModule alias_module>

and after the comments you put an alias like this:

Alias /mysite1 "D:/My Documents/Business/websites/mysite1/httpdocs/"
<Directory "D:/My Documents/Business/websites/mysite1/httpdocs/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

now when you type http://localhost/mysite1 in your browser it should look for index.html in the directory specified and you don't have to have anything in the default C:\xampp173\htdocs away from all your other files.

Or you can just create multiple folders for each site in the xampp htdocs folder and reference them as localhost/foldername1 and localhost/foldername2.

Rather than backing up code folders, I prefer to use an SVN repository, which automatically keeps a history of each of my changes, allows me to access an up-to-date copy my projects on any of the machines I use, anywhere that I have an internet connection and to work collaboratively with other developers. :wink:

Thanks to both of you for this useful information.