WikiAdmin
Setting Up Virtual Hosts
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:
1. Check if virtual hosts are allowed
By default, Apache2 uses the /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf files (the location of the virtual 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
2. Create a custom domain for the host files on your system
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/
sudo mkdir myproject
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>Welcome World!</h1>\n\t</body>\n</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
sudo su
echo -e '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"
2.1. Create folder to host your files
https://de.opensuse.org/Apache
sudo cp /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost.template /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/myprojectvhost.conf
Example configuration
<VirtualHost *:80>
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>
2.2. Link DocumentRoot to ServerName respectively virtual host
/etc/hosts
| |
| /etc/apache2/httpd.conf | |
| /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf | |
| /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. |
/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
2.3. Edit configuration file
https://doc.opensuse.org/docum[...]nce/cha-apache2.html
2.4. 1.7. What is where?
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
3. Create a custom domain in the hosts file of your system
/opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.3:80> DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/my-project" DirectoryIndex index.php <Directory "/opt/lampp/htdocs/my-project"> Options All AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost>
4. Add the virtual host path
Start apache and mysql (entire XAMPP).
Navigate in your browser to http://myproject/ or http://127.0.0.3/.