set the "document root" to the public folder inside your project

This is the Virtual Host that I use on Windows 10 Pro using XAMPP and PHP 7.1.7.

PHP Code:

# Testing CI 4.0 Dev
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "\xampp\htdocs\ci4\public_html"
    ServerName ci4.dev
    <Directory "\xampp\htdocs\ci4\public_html">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost> 


Also on Windows you may need to add the server name to the Windows host file.

c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

You can open it using notepad with administrator mode.

Example:

127.0.0.1 ci4.dev
or
::1 ci4.dev

This works fine for me and I use it all the time.

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