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The usage of virtual hosts in Apache Configuration is the practice of running more than one web site (that targets local resources) on a single machine.

Virtual hosts are IP-based, meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or "name-based", meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address. This practice using Apache2 on OpenSuse comes in handy when you want to simulate a production environment (however working in dev environment) locally accessing to your project by a normal URL in the browser.

To setup a custom virtual host, we need to follow these steps:

Allow virtual hosts

By default, Apache2 ~~won't use~~ uses the /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf files (the location of the virtual ~~hosts),~~ hosts, one configuration file per virtual host in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/), therefore per default we do not need to indicate that this file will be included during the runtime of Apache.
See: /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

IncludeOptional /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf

Once you have installed and checked the status of Apache, go to its Web-root directory and create a new directory as mentioned below.

 cd /srv/www/htdocs/

 sudo mkdir <!--markup:1:begin-->wiki

<!~~markup:1:end~~> myproject

<!--markup:2:end-->

Create a new file in the above mentioned directory by using the following command.

echo -e ~~'<html>\n<html>\n\t<body>\n\t\t<h1>MyWiki Works!</h1>\n\t</body>\n</html>'~~ <!~~markup:2:begin~~>'<html>\n<html>\n\t<body>\n\t\t<h1>Welcome World!</h1>\n\t</body>\n</html>' > ~~/srv/www/htdocs/wiki/index.html~~ /srv/www/htdocs/myproject/index.html

Create a new virtualhost configuration file in the below mentioned directory and configure it as follows.

/etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf

~~echo~~ sudo su

echo -e ~~'DocumentRoot\"/srv/www/htdocs/site1\"\nServerName www.linuxhelp1.com"\'~~ 'DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs/myproject"\nServerName "myproject"' > /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf

Did it work?

cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf

You should see

DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs/myproject" ServerName "myproject"

===Edit configuration file==
https://de.opensuse.org/Apache

sudo cp /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost.template /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/myprojectvhost.conf

Example configuration

ServerName myproject
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/myproject
<Directory /srv/www/vhosts/myproject>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Require all granted

</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log combined
ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>

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<!--markup:2:begin-->====1.7. What is where?====

(wacko wrapper=shade)
https://doc.opensuse.org/docum[...]figfiles-etc-apache2


<!~~markup:2:end~~> /etc/hosts <!~~markup:2:begin~~>
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
<!~~markup:2:end~~> /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf <!~~markup:2:begin~~>
/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf
/etc/apache2/default-server.conf	Global configuration for all virtual hosts with reasonable defaults. Instead of changing the values, overwrite them with a virtual host configuration.

<!--markup:2:end-->


**/opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf**

# Virtual hosts
#Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Proceed to modify the line uncommenting that line:

# Virtual hosts
Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

===Weblinks===
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-apache2.html

((https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-apache2.html#sec-apache2-configuration-manually-configfiles-etc-apache2))
===Create a custom domain in the hosts file of your system===

You need to create a custom domain where our apache virtual host will point to. This domain will be normally an ip (127.0.0.xx based) and a custom name.

In this example, our IP will be ##127.0.0.3## and the domain ##myproject##. So finally, our hosts file will look like:

**/etc/hosts**

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.3 myproject

#don't touch other existent values
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

===Add the virtual host path===

**/opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf**

DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/my-project"
DirectoryIndex index.php

<Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs/my-project">
Options All
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

</VirtualHost> %%

Test your virtual host

Start apache and mysql (entire XAMPP).
Navigate in your browser to http://myproject/ or http://127.0.0.3/.