As the name suggested, Virtual Host is a technique to create a virtual URL of a website. For example on the local server we generally run a project like http://localhost/xyz but if you want to run this project like http://www.xyz.com on your local system. Virtual host will work for you.

Please follow the below step to set virtual host:

1) Please open /etc/hosts file. This file will appear like below:

127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 vivek-System-Product-Name

The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Please add an another line on third row 127.0.1.1 xyz.com www.xyz.com

Save this file and close

2) Please open /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file. Copy the complete content of this file and paste this on the bottom of this file and make the changes as below:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE&#95;LOG&#95;DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE&#95;LOG&#95;DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www/xyz
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/xyz>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE&#95;LOG&#95;DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE&#95;LOG&#95;DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

3) Restart the server again. Now you can run xyz project link: http://www.xyz.com on your local system.