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In StackOverflow, there are several questions and forums about changing the Drupal default front page URL, but none of them provide any solutions. In this article, we will show you step by step how to change the Drupal default front page URL.
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We are using XAMPP to test it locally. As you can see in the following screenshot we have hosted our website under htdocs directory onexlab-drupal.com
Before Configuration
You can see in the following screenshot our Drupal default front page base URL
To change Drupal’s default front page base URL, there is no hardcoded code or database configuration that needs to be updated
httpd.conf
Uncomment the following line in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf file
Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.confhttpd-vhosts.conf
add the following VirtualHost
Edit Hosts File
Open the terminal and type the following command
sudo vim /private/etc/hosts
