title: ICANN Name Collision & Chrome
body: <p>Half a year ago I installed XAMPP on my Computer with a few virtualhosts ending with ".dev". When I now try to open those websites in Chrome it gives me the error <em>ICANN Name Collision</em>. After some research I found out that im not the only one with the Problem and that the only way around is to Change to ".local".</p>
  
  <p>So I changed my Host File and httpd.config restarted the System/FLushed the DNS Cache but it's not working anymore. I can't acces the Server with the new local Domain names. When I use IE and type in example.dev (or whatever adresse i used before) it still redirects to localhost but not to the old Directory. Therefore I guess that Apache noticed the Change and is on the new configuration but my Browser somehow tell me they can't find the Server. </p>
  
  <p>What is the most likely Error? Which Error Logs might be helpful?</p>
  
  <h2>If I use the XAMPP/Apache Shell and type in httpd -S it prints me out the current v-Host Settings like in the v-host.config file.</h2>
  
  <p>Host File: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>127.0.0.1      db.local</p>
    
    <p>127.0.0.1      test.local</p>
    
    <p>127.0.0.1      www.test.local</p>
    
    <p>127.0.0.1      host.local</p>
    
    <p>127.0.0.1      www.host.local</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      ServerName localhost
      ServerAlias localhost
      DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP_DEV/htdocs"
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  &lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      ServerName db.local
      DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP_DEV/phpmyadmin"
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  &lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      ServerName test.local
      ServerAlias www.test.local
      DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP_DEV/htdocs/test"
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  &lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      ServerName host.local
      ServerAlias www.host.local
      DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP_DEV/htdocs"
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thats my V-Host Configurtion and Host file; I removed all the lines starting with #.</p>