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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~~
===Check if virtual ~~hosts===~~ hosts are allowed=== 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:

cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

See uncommented?

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

Create a custom domain for the host files on your system

Create folder to host your files

You must be root to install and configure Apache.
Change to user root

 sudo su

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 <!--markup:1:begin-->/srv/www/htdocs/<!--markup:1:end--> <!--markup:2:begin-->/srv/www/

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 mkdir

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

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cd /srv/www/myproject

mkdir htdocs

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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>'~~ '<html>\n<html>\n\t<body>\n\t\t<h1>Welcome World!</h1>\n\t</body>\n</html>' > ~~/srv/www/htdocs/myproject/index.html~~ /srv/www/myproject/htdocs/index.html

<!--markup:2:begin-->====Link DocumentRoot to ServerName respectively virtual host====<!--markup:2:end-->

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/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.example.com"

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

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

Example configuration

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

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

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.local ... adding it in your own file (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.local) putting its name into APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 -- this will make system updates easier


<!~~markup:2:end~~> /etc/hosts <!~~markup:2:begin~~>
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf	The main Apache server configuration file. Avoid changing this file. It primarily contains include statements and global settings.
/etc/apache2/global.conf	General configuration of the main Web server process, such as the access path, error logs, or the level of logging.
<!~~markup:2:end~~> /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf <!~~markup:2:begin~~>
/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.
/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.

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**/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

===Create

<!--markup:1:begin-->===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))<!--markup:1:end--> 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/.

===Weblinks=== https://doc.opensuse.org/docum[...]nce/cha-apache2.html
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-apache2.html#sec-apache2-configuration-manually-configfiles-etc-apache2