Question

I am using xampp.

I’ve set up a project in symfony and added this to apaches httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
  ServerName www.plusoneboosters.com.localhost
  DocumentRoot "C:\my_xampp\xampp\htdocs\plusoneboosters\web"
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  <Directory "C:\my_xampp\xampp\htdocs\plusoneboosters\web">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
  </Directory>
  Alias /sf "C:\my_xampp\xampp\htdocs\plusoneboosters\lib\vendor\symfony\data\web\sf"
  <Directory "C:\my_xampp\xampp\htdocs\plusoneboosters\lib\vendor\symfony\data\web\sf">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I also added this to hosts file (Windows):

127.0.0.1 www.plusoneboosters.com.localhost

This project works, but all the projects that are not installed with symfony aren’t working anymore – running localhost/project/index.php will redirect to the symfony project.

I suspect this is happening because htaccess, but do not know what to replace in order to make it work.

I also tried adding another virtual host, didn’t work.

How can I work around this?

Edit: I think I found a solution.

I added another Virtual host in httpd.conf with a different IP: 127.0.0.2 and it seems to be working fine now. I’m not sure if this is the right way to do it though…

Answer 1

When you start to use virtual hosts you need to define at least two of them to keep your old configuration working otherwise your symphony vhost became the default vhost and intercept all the requests. So add to your apache configuration the following lines BEFORE the symphony vhost configuration

# this allows vhost based on hostname and NOT on ip only
NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost _default_>
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot "your old document root"
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  <Directory "your old root document root">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.plusoneboosters.com.localhost
  ...
</VirtualHost>

If you have access to apache command line tool you can check the vhost configuration and priority with apachectl -S which gives you a report of all the defined virtual hosts

Apache virtual host examples