Question

I have a Zend Framework project on a local machine, and as recommended its /public subfolder is made a DocumentRoot in httpd.conf. So I access this app simply with http://localhost.

This new requirement makes me unable to access other
web apps in a former webserver root (which contains a few regular php apps and a couple of zend framework apps).

What configuration should I choose to be able to simultaneously access both ZF root-based apps and other apps like PHPMYADMIN?

Answer 1

You’ll probably need to use some kind of VirtualHost

You have at least two solutions :

• VirtualHosts based on diferent port numbers
  • For instance, you’d have one site on http://localhost/ (ie, default port = 80)
  • And another one on http://localhost:8001/
  • And another one on http://localhost:8802/
  • And so on
• VirtualHosts based on different domain-names
  • For instance, you’d have on site on http://localhost/
  • And another one on http://mytestwebsite/

In the second case (the solution I always use), you will have to edit your “hosts” file, so “mytestwebsite” is an alias to your local machine — which IP address is 127.0.0.1

Under windows, this file is located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

On Linux, it’s in /etc/

You’d have to add a line like these ones :

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       mytestwebsite

Then, in the Apache configuration, you need to create one VirtualHost per site. Something like this, I suppose :

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName      mytestwebsite
    DocumentRoot /home/squale/developpement/tests
    <Directory /home/squale/developpement/tests>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName      myothertestwebsite
    DocumentRoot /.../myothertestwebsite
    <Directory /.../myothertestwebsite>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

(Needs tunning / configuration, of course)

And you’ll also probably need some directive like this one :

NameVirtualHost *

Well, this might not be the entire solution (that one depends on your server / applications) ; but I hope these few pointers will help you get to it !

If you need more help, the keyword is “VirtualHost” 😉

Have fun !