I've installed Ubuntu on a Oracle VM Virtual box, and installed Apache etc.
How do I change the var/www folder that Apache uses, to something else? Can I simply rename it? I'm, trying to change it to nordy/core, in place of var/www.
Can I create a separate folder called nordy/core and place my html files there? One of the reasons I did not do this it because I noticed that var/ has several other folders that will not be created if I simply create a new folder. So, I'm guessing the site wont work.
I'd like to store my html and php files in a folder nordy/core so Apache can use it from there. Can I simply create a folder nordy/core and point Apache to it in Apache's configuration?
How do I do this?
You need to change the value of the DocumentRoot directive of your apache2.conf file. You may find this file at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.
DocumentRoot "/nordy/core"
Then restart your apache process.
sudo service apache2 restart
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I have a website for all intents and purposes is called.
www.foobar.com
Which in my server path is /var/www/
I tried to create a new folder in /var/ called "analytics", with the hope that if I typed www.foobar.com/analytics I could access that folder.
However that does not work because it is actually looking for /var/www/analytics instead of /var/analytics
So how can I have multiple directories mapped to a URI?
For phpmyadmin I can access www.foobar.com/phpmyadmin with the phpadmin folder is in a completely different directory. So it must be possible.
However I tried googling but could not find any answers so I guess I do not have the right description of what this functionality is on Apache webservers.
Any help would be appreciated.
You have to create virtual directories in Apache.
If you are using Apache2, then can you go to the directories
/etc/apache2/sites-available and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled.
You have probably only the default virtual directory enabled.
You can make a copy of a virtual directory in the map /sites-available.
A virtual directory starts with specifying what the root directory is.
Then can you use the commands a2ensite and a2dissite in order to enable or disable the virtual directories respectively.
After a change in enabled/disabled virtual directories do you need to restart/reload the apache server.
If you use .htaccess file, do not forget to set AllowAccess (in the tag Directory) to at least FileInfo or .htaccess will be ignored.
If you want to make those directories different hosts, then can you make aliases in /etc/hosts.
On my home computer have I aliases for the ip addresses 27.0.0.1 and 27.0.1.1.
That gives me the possibility to have two different sites at the same time.
I just to ask a simple question. I am studying the vhost configuration but I am confused where should I properly put my vhosts configuration?
I have a file that has a name httpd-vhosts.conf and httpd.conf
I try to put my configuration in these 2 files but different web projects. And after I restarted my Wampserver I can access them. Is it fine if I place all my vhost entries in the file httpd-vhosts.conf ? Or should I place it in httpd.conf
There is no right or wrong. Apache has one global config file, which typically is the default or specified in the startup script.
This file then uses one or more secondary config files and directories. Different Linux distributions use different default include directories.
On CentOS I think for example you would put a file (named like your domain but can be anything) in /etc/httpd/conf.d/example-com.conf: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir
I recently installed apache2 on ubuntu but I have a problem, my httpd.conf is empty. Can someone give me a clean copy of httpd.conf for apache2 on ubuntu?
Thanks!
Edit: I saw your answers but on wampserver httpd.conf is not empty and as you mentioned it is for user options. SO what should I do?
Edit2 : That's what I got on my apache2.conf, how I add modules, enable gzip and all of that?
[Deleted the contents, as they render the question unreadable and are useless, because that were the default Apache2 configuration under Ubuntu.]
The /etc/apache2/httpd.conf is empty in Ubuntu, because the Apache configuration resides in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf!
“httpd.conf is for user options.” No it isn't, it's there for historic reasons.
Using Apache server, all user options should go into a new *.conf-file inside /etc/apache2/conf.d/. This method should be "update-safe", as httpd.conf or apache2.conf may get overwritten on the next server update.
Inside /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, you will find the following line, which includes those files:
# Include generic snippets of statements
Include conf.d/
As of Apache 2.4+ the user configuration directory is /etc/apache2/conf-available/. Use a2enconf FILENAME_WITHOUT_SUFFIX to enable the new configuration file or manually create a symlink in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/. Be aware that as of Apache 2.4 the configuration files must have the suffix .conf (e.g. conf-available/my-settings.conf);
It's empty by default. You'll find a bunch of settings in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.
In there it does this:
# Include all the user configurations:
Include httpd.conf
OK - what you're missing is that its designed to be more industrial and serve many sites, so the config you want is probably:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default
which on my system is linked to from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
if you want to have different sites with different options, copy the file and then change those...
It seems to me, that it is by design that this file is empty.
A similar question has been asked here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2567432/ubuntu-apache-httpd-conf-or-apache2-conf
So, you should have a look for /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
I wanted to start a (my first) wordpress project on my mac.
I run apache with MAMP, and wanted to make another (I allready have a few) virtual host for this particular project.
I added the host to my httpd.conf and etc/hosts file as i've done many times before.
When I browse to the url i've chosen I just end up in the directory that i've specified as root folder in my MAMP settings.
Apache seems to ignore the changes made in the httpd.conf file, but if I remove (rename) the httpd.conf file (to _httpd.conf) it apache doesn't start. so it looks like changes to this file are ignored, BUT if I put something wrong in the file apache doesn't start either...
this is what I put in the httpd.conf file to add a virtual host:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites/site_dir/"
ServerName local.sitename.com
<Directory "/Users/username/Sites/site_dir/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
can this have anything to do with WP?
greets,
R.
On Windows:
Try putting it in the conf/extras/httpd-vhosts.conf instead and try
where port 80 is whatever port you have apache running on (:80 by default on windows)
and try not to use .org .com or any ending common on the web in your server name/alias use if you are developing the project on your localhost use something like sitename.local instead.
On Mac:
Not sure how it would work
On Ubuntu 11.04:
I just:
Set up a different vhost file for each site inside of /etc/apache2/sites-available
Then enable the site via a2ensite or just make a copy to the file using cp to the sites-enabled folder (all this is done via the ssh or a terminal on mac)
I then reload and restart apache and wallah!
I'm having a similar problem on one of my ubuntu servers. I'm doing something that I've done several times but all of a sudden it doesn't work. Go figure, lol! Typo? Who knows, definitely scour the web, an answer is sure to surface.
What would be the best way to set up XAMPP so that when I go to
http://localhost1 it access the folder C:\localhost1
and when I type
http://localhost2 it access the folder C:\localhost2?
I've done a response yesterday that should fit your needs:
Modify htaccess file for two sites
Use Alias in apache conf
http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=36801
Make XAMPP/Apache serve file outside of htdocs