Question

I’m trying to set up multiple virtual hosts on my local apache2 server. My goal is to be able to go to “zf2-tutorial.localhost” in the browser for my Zend project and then go to “symfony.localhost” for my Symfony project. Right now my Zend project gets served up no matter if i go to “zf2-tutorial.localhost” or “symfony.localhost”. Here’s part of my http.conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName zf2-tutorial.localhost
    DocumentRoot /Users/myusername/Sites/Zend/public
    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
    <Directory /Users/myusername/Sites/Zend/public>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName symfony.localhost
    DocumentRoot /Users/myusername/Sites/symfony
    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
    ServerAlias www.symfony.localhost
</VirtualHost>

My “hosts” file ends with these two lines

127.0.0.1 zf2-tutorial.localhost localhost
127.0.0.1 symfony.localhost localhost

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you’re running Apache before version 2.3.11, then you forgot to use the NameVirtualHost directive.

NameVirtualHost *:80

You should also read up on the Apache Virtual Host documentation for version 2.2 or 2.4.