Allow Cachet to run with other sites - apache

Question

I have installed the open source status page Cachet on my macbook's local web server and it works perfectly but during the set up it tells you to change your apache's virtual host to route all traffic to Cachet. I am trying to allow Cachet to run by going to the main domain but if I go to domain/test I would like it to go to another web page. I tried adding another vhost like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName http://domain/test
DocumentRoot /Users/macbook/Sites/
</VirtualHost>
but this does not work, I just get error 404 when trying to reach /test page.

Answer 1

Cachet is built using the Laravel framework, so there is a front controller in the public/ directory. That's why you need to route all the requests to this file. But you do not need to route all the traffic of your server to Cachet, that's just the traffic of the site (Cachet), in order to /setup and others are executed by /public/index.php.
Your vhost file may be simple, below an example of what it could be.
It is a simple vhost configured in Mamp, on OSX.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Cachet/public"
ServerName status.mysite.com
<Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Cachet/public>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
The routing to the public/index.php file is performed by a .htaccess file, so you don't have to write this configuration in your vhost. All you need to do in your vhost is to allow the .htaccess execution.
Note for local web server
If you want to use a custom domain name, you'll need to
update the /etc/hosts file to match the domain with your loopback IP
address.