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 won't use the /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf files (the location of the virtual hosts), therefore we need to indicate that this file will be included during the runtime of Apache.
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 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>MyWiki Works!</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/site1"\nServerName "www.linuxhelp1.com"' > /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf
Did it work?
cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf
You should see
DocumentRoot "srv/www/htdocs/site1" ServerName "www.linuxhelp1.com"
/etc/hosts
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
/etc/apache2/conf.d/vhost.conf
/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf
/etc/apache2/default-server.conf
/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. Create a custom domain for the host files on your system
https://doc.opensuse.org/docum[...]nce/cha-apache2.html
2.1. Create folder to host your files
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
2.2. Link DocumentRoot to ServerName respectively virtual host
/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>
2.3. Edit configuration file
Start apache and mysql (entire XAMPP).
Navigate in your browser to http://myproject/ or http://127.0.0.3/.