Wordpress Subdomain MultiSite on localhost XAMPP on :8080 with IIS taking port 80

Question

I currently have Windows 7 , 64 bit on which I am running an IIS on localhost:80 and I installed XAMPP on localhost:8080. I have 15 individual wordpress sites but now i need a subdomain multisite wordpress.

I created wp.dev:8080 in the hosts file for multisite, and correctly amended the apache virtual file. All worked until I added the define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); to the config file. When I clicked on the new Network menu option in wordpress, I got an error:

`ERROR: You cannot install a network of sites with your server address.

You cannot use port numbers such as :8080.

`

Now here is the problem. localhost is mapped to 127.0.0.1 on port 80 for IIS. And Apache is taking all of localhost:8080. can I somehow split the localhost:80 traffic by assigning wp.dev to be the only :80 to go to Apache and the remainder to continue going to IIS. How would I define that since in Apache I already have *:8080 defined? Please help, my files are below:

#Hosts file on c/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
#this is root of iis if i dont specify port (:80) and if i specify port (:8080) go to xampp
127.0.0.1 localhost
#these below are the :8080 individual wordpress on xampp 
127.0.0.1 sb.localhost tw.localhost ups.localhost vet.localhost box.localhost ea.localhost
#multisite below
127.0.0.1 wp.dev

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This is my Apache config file D:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost *:8080

<VirtualHost *:8080>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

#this is a working wordpress normal blog

<VirtualHost *:8080>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/ki/abce/wordpress"
    ServerName abce.localhost
    <Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/ki/abce/wordpress">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

#this below is how network subdomain blog that would work if not for 8080 problem

<VirtualHost *:8080>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/alllive/wordpress"
    ServerAlias *.wp.dev
    ServerName wp.dev
    <Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/alllive/wordpress">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Thank you in Advance!

Answer 1

Ok, I gave up and moved to port 80, though i think what @Boultge suggest (the link) would have probably done it, but I read it too late.

Here are the files tho that are letting me run XAMPP WordPress MU sub-domain Multisite on localhost as wp.dev with 20 additional WordPress individual sites. I shortened it because i have 8 sites per line and both my wpmu and regular wordpress sites all look the same, i just have to be careful not to pick a name for a new multisite domain that i am already using for the regular wordpress

Here the c/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
#
127.0.0.1 wp.dev
#
127.0.0.1 somename.wp.dev someothername.wp.dev wpmu1.wp.dev wpmu2.wp.dev wpmu3.wp.dev

In httpd.conf file located in xampp/apache/conf I have (all else left as is)

line 47 - Listen 80 Line 184- ServerName localhost:80

In httpd-vhosts.conf in xampp/apache/conf/extra :

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

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/regular-wordpress-1/wordpress"
    ServerName somename.wp.dev
    <Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/regular-wordpress-1/wordpress">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/regular-wordpress-2/wordpress"
    ServerName someothername.wp.dev
    <Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/regular-wordpress-2/wordpress">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The rest of them above are all the same, each one a completely independent wordpress install

at the very end of httpd-vhosts.conf comes multisite domains below

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/wpmu-home/wordpress"
    ServerAlias wpmu1.wp.dev
    ServerAlias wpmu2.wp.dev
    ServerAlias wpmu3.wp.dev
    ServerName wp.dev
    <Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/wpmu-home/wordpress">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

No other directive is activated besides what's here in the httpd-vhosts. With this sub domain wordpress multisite on xampp works fine though on port 80.