Multisite with Apache and Windows Server 2003

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I am new to drupal and multisites and have a multisite that wont work. I have a base site that is drupal and is running great. Love drupal. That site is www.example.com. I want to create a subdomain called rosy.example.com. I followed the instructions on drupal.org/node/547860 . Let me give details of what I have and what I have done.

I am running a XAMPP install on a windows server 03 box.

I have the first drupal site for www.example.com installed to xampp/htdocs

I created a folder inside the xampp/htdocs/sites folder called rosy.example.com . Other folders in the sites folder is all, default, rosy.example.com

I copied the settings.php file and added the following lines

$db_url = 'mysqli://root@localhost/rosy' ;

base URL
$base_url = 'http://rosy.example.com' ; //NO trailing slash!

I edited the hosts file to include 127.0.0.1 rosy.example.com and added 127.0.0.1 example.com

I edited the httpd.conf and made sure vhosts was active

Then edited httpd-vhosts.conf to include the following lines.

NameVirtualHost *:80

DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/
ServerName rosy

DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/
ServerName localhost

I have added an entry for default but it shuts down my site. The data base exists. I can access it on the local box but cannot get to it outside of that box Can anyone help?