WIN 10 XAMPP 7.0.9 Local Hosts Setup Solved

After much trial and error and many many XAMPP installs and uninstall. I finally got it to work with information provided by Apache Lounge.

Windows hosts file:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
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# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       dmreed 
127.0.0.1       devsite

Apache httpd.conf file (required changes):

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ServerRoot "G:/xampp/apache"
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# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
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Apache http-vhosts.conf file (for actual usage replace the [ and ] characters with < and > characters, respectively):

###################################################################### 
 # G:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf 
 # 
 #    Location       hostname         url 
 # g:/xampp/htdocs   localhost    http://localhost/ 
 # g:/8081dmreed     dmreed       http://dmreed/ 
 # g:/8082devsite    devsite      http://devsite/ 
 ###################################################################### 

 # Preserve localhost 
 [VirtualHost _default_:80]
     DocumentRoot "g:/xampp/htdocs" 
     ServerName localhost 
 [/VirtualHost]

 # Site: dmreed 
 [VirtualHost *:80]
     DocumentRoot "g:/8081dmreed" 
     ServerName dmreed 
     CustomLog "g:/8081dmreed/dmreed.access.log" combined 
     [Directory "g:/8081dmreed"]
        Options All 
        AllowOverride All 
        Require all granted 
     [/Directory]
 [/VirtualHost]

 # Site: devsite 
 [VirtualHost *:80]
     DocumentRoot "g:/8082devsite" 
     ServerName devsite 
     CustomLog "g:/8082devsite/devsite.access.log" combined 
     [Directory "g:/8082devsite"]
        Options All 
        AllowOverride All 
        Require all granted 
     [/Directory]
 [/VirtualHost]