

The Problem for real website development. In fact if you did use this mechanism it often caused problems as the live sites configuration would not match your development configuration. However it was never intended for use when developing a real web site that you would later want to copy to your live hosted server. This made life easy for the complete beginner, and was perfectly acceptable for example for those following tutorials to learn PHP coding. These subfolders would then show as links in the WampServer Homepage under a menu called 'Your Projects' and these links would contain a link to localhost/subfoldername. In order to make life easier for beginners using WampServer to learn PHP Apache and MySQL it was suggested that you create subfolders under the \wamp\www\ folder. In WampServer 2.5 it is now STRONGLY encouraged to create a Virtual Host for each of your projects, even if you hold then in a \wamp\www\subfolder structure.

There has been a change of concept in WampServer 2.5 and there is a good reason for this change! WAMPServer 2.5 Homepage the Your Projects Menu and Virtual Hosts
