After I configured virtual host, my apache document root changed to the virtual host's document root, I just want to know why.
here is my httpd-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myapp.zend
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/php_zend_projects/myapp
<Directory /opt/lampp/htdocs/php_zend_projects/myapp/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all granted
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
After I restart apache server, localhost page changed to index of /opt/lampp/htdocs/php_zend_projects/myapp,
http://gwjyhs.com/t6/702/1556725814x2728329017.png
but it is supposed to be xampp's default page like this:
http://gwjyhs.com/t6/702/1556726269x2728278877.png
If you enable vhosts you have to add an entry that looks like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "F:/Dev/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
Note: change path to whatever is appropriate for you.
Restart webserver and it should work as before.
Reasoning behind this can be found in a comment on top of the httpd-vhosts.conf:
The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not match a ##ServerName or ##ServerAlias in any block.
That means when you type in localhost it fallbacks to your myapp.zend vhost because it is (probably) the first virtualhost section.
i got a problem with apache conf with Laragon.
so the case is :
i got 2 subdomain
subdom1.mysite.com (DNS Record to IP 1.2.3.4)
subdom2.mysite.com (DNS Record to IP 1.2.3.4)
IP 1.2.3.4 is my VPS
everything went well, but i got a problem.
when i access 'localhost' from my VPS, it keeps redirecting to subdom1.mysite.com
and localhost/phpMyAdmin also redirected to subdom1.mysite.com/phpMyAdmin
here's my httpd.conf
Define APACHE_LOG_DIR "C:/mydir/logs"
Define APACHE_ROOT_WEB_DIR "C:/mydir/wwwroot"
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/mydir/wwwroot"
<Directory "C:/mydir/wwwroot">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName subdom1.mysite.com
ServerAlias subdom1.mysite.com
DocumentRoot ${APACHE_ROOT_WEB_DIR}\subdom1.mysite.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subdom1.mysite.com-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subdom1.mysite.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName subdom2.mysite.com
ServerAlias subdom2.mysite.com
DocumentRoot ${APACHE_ROOT_WEB_DIR}\subdom2.mysite.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subdom2.mysite.com-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subdom2.mysite.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
my localhost keeps redirecting to first vHost. I've googled lot's of combination of directory, serverName etc. But no luck.
Your VirtualHosts are binding to all available interfaces. Because of how apache determines to which VHost should route a request, it's ending up in the first one defined.
You can either:
Bind your subdomains to the external ip only.
Create a VirtualHost for the main server using the loopback ip.
Create a VirtualHost with the _default_ address.
So I was using Wampserver for developing purposes, and I managed to set up the server for developing purposes (it worked with Dreamweaver, PHP worked etc.) but when accessing localhost, I get a 404 error.
I've hardly changed the settings, other than setting it to use that vhosts file, then I made a few new hosts in the hosts file in system 32, which all works fine.
localhost/phpmyadmin does work, however, so I am really stumped as to why it won't load anything. I also tried loading one of the site folders (localhost/Rufus) which also returned a 404. I have all the directories I need pointing to www folder, where all my files are saved.
And before anyone says, no it's not Skype or IIS, as they are both off and Wampserver is running on port 80 (I checked)
My vhosts file:
# Virtual Hosts
#
# Required modules: mod_log_config
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/docs/dummy-host.example.com"
ServerName dummy-host.example.com
ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#dummy-host2.example.com
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/docs/dummy-host2.example.com"
ServerName dummy-host2.example.com
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<Directory C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www>
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www\Rufus"
ServerName rufus.stone
</VirtualHost>
Remove the sample virtual hosts, assuming you aren't using them. You also need a virtual host for 'localhost' and it must be the first virtual host. After that you can include your other, custom vhosts.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www\Rufus"
ServerName rufus.stone
</VirtualHost>
If you get a permission denied error try putting the directive I took out into your httpd.conf:
<Directory "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www">
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
It would go right under a similar directive that includes a Deny from all on the root.
Make sure you always restart Apache whenever you make changes to these files.
The error 404 is saying that you have not granted access to those Virtual Hosts, so Apache is kicking you out.
You need to include with your Virtual Host some information to tell Apache which locations are allowed access to each VHOST
You also need to make localhost a Virtual Host and because the first VHOST is the default VHOST it should really be the first you define, and it should always be limited to allow access only from the local machine.
So see if this works any better.
# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www">
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www\Rufus"
ServerName rufus.stone
<Directory "C:\Users\Tom\sites\wamp\www\Rufus>
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Require local says allow access from the PC running WAMPServer only.
If later you want to allow other PC's on your internal network to see the Apache server you can add to that like this, for example.
Require local
Require ip 192.168.1
This, assuming you are on the subnet 192.168.1.? will allow any PC connected to your router (wired or wifi) access to the server.
You should avoid these, unless you actually want the world to access your site
Require all granted
OR the Apache 2.2 syntax, which still works on Apache 2.4
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
I'm working with XAMPP on Mac OS X.
I'm trying to run a Symfony website properly for a client, and I really don't know Symfony (yet). I just want to install and launch it.
I've changed my /etc/hosts file this way:
127.0.0.1 www.mysite.local
And the httpd.conf file this way:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mysite.local
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web>
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /sf /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now, the site is working (yay!), but I can't access any more any of my other local sites because localhost is rendered as www.mysite.local.
Where am I wrong?
This worked for me!
To run projects like http://localhost/projectName:
<VirtualHost localhost:80>
ServerAdmin localhost
DocumentRoot path/to/htdocs/
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
To run projects like http://somewebsite.com locally:
<VirtualHost somewebsite.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/somewebsiteFolder
ServerName www.somewebsite.com
ServerAlias somewebsite.com
</VirtualHost>
The same for other websites:
<VirtualHost anothersite.local:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/anotherSiteFolder
ServerName www.anothersite.local
ServerAlias anothersite.com
</VirtualHost>
localhost will always redirect to 127.0.0.1. You can trick this by naming your other VirtualHost to other local loop-back address, such as 127.0.0.2. Make sure you also change the corresponding hosts file to implement this.
For example, my httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet"
ServerName intranet.dev
ServerAlias www.intranet.dev
ErrorLog "logs/intranet.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/intranet.dec-access.log" combined
<Directory "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
(Notice that in <VirtualHost> section I typed 127.0.0.2:80. It means that this block of VirtualHost will only affects requests to IP address 127.0.0.2 port 80, which is the default port for HTTP.
To route the name intranet.dev properly, my hosts entry line is like this:
127.0.0.2 intranet.dev
This way, it will prevent you from creating another VirtualHost block for localhost, which is unnecessary.
This is normal if you see it. Since it is the first virtual host entry, it will show local host.
Let’s say for example you didn't want that page to show. All you want to show is the "Apache, it works" page, so you would make a vhost entry before mysite.local as local host and point it to the "it works" page.
But this is normal. I had this problem before, so don't worry!
You may want to use this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "somepath\Apache2.2\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
as your first virtual host (place it before other virtual hosts).
I had the same issue of accessing localhost while working with virtualHost. I resolved it by adding the name in the virtualHost listen code like below:
In my hosts file, I have added the below code (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) -
127.0.0.1 main_live
And in my httpd.conf I have added the below code:
<VirtualHost main_live:80>
DocumentRoot H:/wamp/www/raj/main_live/
ServerName main_live
</VirtualHost>
That's it. It works, and I can use both localhost, phpmyadmin, as well as main_live (my virtual project) simultaneously.
Additional description for John Smith's answer from the official documentation. To understand why it is.
Main host goes away
If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server, you must
also create a block for the existing host. The
ServerName and DocumentRoot included in this virtual host should be
the same as the global ServerName and DocumentRoot. List this virtual
host first in the configuration file so that it will act as the
default host.
For example, to work properly with XAMPP, to prevent VirtualHost overriding the main host, add the follow lines into file httpd-vhosts.conf:
# Main host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
# Additional host
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Over directives there
</VirtualHost>
For someone doing everything described here and still can't access:
XAMPP with Apache 2.4:
In file httpd-vhost.conf:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/dir"
ServerName something.dev
<Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/dir">
Require all granted #apache v 2.4.4 uses just this
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
There isn't any need for a port, or an IP address here. Apache configures it on its own files. There isn't any need for NameVirtualHost *:80; it's deprecated. You can use it, but it doesn't make any difference.
Then to edit hosts, you must run Notepad as administrator (described below). If you were editing the file without doing this, you are editing a pseudo file, not the original (yes, it saves, etc., but it's not the real file)
In Windows:
Find the Notepad icon, right click, run as administrator, open file, go to C:/WINDOWS/system32/driver/etc/hosts, check "See all files", and open hosts.
If you were editing it before, probably you will see it's not the file you were previously editing when not running as administrator.
Then to check if Apache is reading your httpd-vhost.conf, go to folder xampFolder/apache/bin, Shift + right click, open a terminal command here, open XAMPP (as you usually do), start Apache, and then on the command line, type httpd -S. You will see a list of the virtual hosts. Just check if your something.dev is there.
According to this documentation: Name-based Virtual Host Support
You may be missing the following directive:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Just change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>.
Then the default DocumentRoot will serve for all domains or IP addresses that point to your server and specified VirtualHost will work.
It may be because your web folder (as mentioned "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web") is empty.
My suggestion is first to make your project and then work on making the virtual host.
I went with a similar situation. I was using an empty folder in the DocumentRoot in httpd-vhosts.confiz and I couldn't access my shahg101.com site.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). This is what worked for me:
Open up a terminal and cd to /etc/apache2/sites-available. There
you will find a file called 000-default.conf.
Copy that file: cp 000-default.conf example.local.conf
Open that new file (I use Nano; use what you are comfortable with).
You will see a lot of commented lines, which you can delete.
Change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost example.local:80>
Change the document root to reflect the location of your files.
Add the following line: ServerName example.local And if you need to, add this line: ServerAlias www.example.local
Save the file and restart Apache: service Apache2 restart
Open a browser and navigate to example.local. You should see your website.
For anyone using Windows and the Bitnami WAMP Stack Manager Tool this virtual host configuration should go into Bitnami\apache2\conf\bitnami\bitnami.conf
Note: Some settings in Directory section is not a must.
For example, my virtual host configuration for site.com would be as follows:
<VirtualHost site.com:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Bitnami/apache2/htdocs/site/docroot"
<Directory "C:/Bitnami/apache2/htdocs/site/docroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
<IfVersion < 2.3 >
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3 >
Require all granted
</IfVersion>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Remember that configuration for vhost as mentioned, by other friends, sagits's answer is needed.
I have an Apache server configured with several configuration files in which I declare VirtualHost's. However, when I access my server for one of the given ServerName it is not respected and defaults to another one.
My configurations is as followed:
In a ports.conf file I have this:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80
Then in another file, I have this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName my.server.com
ServerAlias other.server.com
DocumentRoot /home/mys/
Alias / /home/mys/
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mys-error.log
<Directory /home/mys/>
Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
In another file I have this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName something.server.com
ServerAlias else.server.com
Redirect permanent / https://something.server.com
</VirtualHost>
And I have a configuration on port 443 for something.server.com which works ok
When I call http://my.server.com, I end up on https://something.server.com
All hostnames point to the same IP.
I am running on Apache/2.2.9 (Debian)
Any hint or ideas would be much appreciated. I am not an Apache expert so if I need to provide more info or formulate this in another way, just let me know.
OK, actually this is working fine, but because I indicated a Permanent Redirect, Firefox cached the redirect. So nothing wrong in the configuration (although one might say that is probably dangerous to indicate a permanent redirect).