Question

I used a small tutorial to create a menu through the Navigation_Menu view helper. I created my Zend folder inside a subfolder of localhost so now I can access this in my brwoser with

localhost/project/public

Now the menu gets a relative url from my config. For instance ‘about’ maps to /index/about. Now my view helper maps ‘about’ to localhost/index/about. How can I map this to localhost/project/public/index/about without altering my config file?

Most probably, this is not Zend specific, so correct me if I’m wrong.

Answer 1

Assuming you are using Xampp/Apache lokal Webserver, here’s the HowTo on setting up a local Domain

1. Go to your $xamppRoot / apache / conf / extra Folder
2. Inside that open http-vhosts.conf
3. In the Top commented area, make sure to uncomment the following line NameVirtualHost *:80

4. Now comes the variable part and i will just post my Structure. You may edit Servername (which basically is the url/domain), DocumentRoot (which is the path to project/public), SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV $yourenv (Zend Config Environment) and <Directory ...> (which once again is the path to project/public)

   <Virtualhost *:80>
     ServerName hod.dev
     DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\prvt\cahod\public"
   
     SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "local"
   
     <Directory C:\xampp\htdocs\prvt\cahod\public>
       DirectoryIndex index.php
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
     </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   

With this your Apache now knows how to Set up a local domain. The only thing left to do now is to make your local machine not access the internet when accessing http://hod.dev

1. Go to Windows / system32 / drivers / etc
2. Open HOSTS (you may use a simple text editor)
3. Inside this you’ll see some lines already
4. Just add 127.0.0.1 hod.dev
5. Save it and have fun with your local domain

PS: I’m sorry that the code-block above does look shitty, but somehow it doesn’t work really well in here – breaks the code somehow 🙁