Configuring symfony and apache - linux

Question

I'm learning symfony right now. I want to use apache webserver instead of the shipped php. How can I add a virtualhost if I want to use also the default localhost? (localhost:80 for my notebook and I have a "personalhomepage")

Answer 1

Here is one of the vHosts I am currently using (cronolog is used for log rotation):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName projectname.dev
DocumentRoot /var/www/projectname/html/web
<Directory /var/www/projectname/html/web>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog "|/usr/bin/cronolog /var/www/projectname/log/%Y-%m/error_%d_%m_%Y.log"
CustomLog "|/usr/bin/cronolog /var/www/projectname/log/%Y-%m/access_%d_%m_%Y.log" combined
</VirtualHost>
For testing and development purposes I usually create a local domain with the .dev or .local ending in the hosts file, e.g.:
127.0.0.1 projectname.dev
Make sure the domain name corresponds with the one in the vHost config. Oh, and don't dont forget to restart apache. Hope this helps.
Using these steps, you can use either projectname.dev, projectname.dev/app_dev.php or you set the vHost's DirectoryIndex directly, if you want to always use app_dev.php:
<Directory /var/www/projectname/html/web>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
DirectoryIndex app_dev.php
</Directory>

Answer 2

You would setup Apache in the same way as any other webservers that have more than one site on them - ideally, a named vhost. Symfony has an example Apache vhost config,
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.tld
ServerAlias www.domain.tld
ServerAlias www.sitename.127.1.0.1.xip.name
DocumentRoot /var/www/project/web
<Directory /var/www/project/web>
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
# In local development, I default this to app_dev.php
</IfModule>
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/project_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/project_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
In this example, domain.tld (or www.) is the name you would use to reach the site. You would have to be able to reach those names via DNS though - on your local machine, 127.0.0.1. There are also some 'wildcard DNS' services that may help, such as http://xip.name/ With services such as these, you could put ServerName sitename.127.1.0.1.xip.name into the above configuration and then use that to reach your site.
I do something similar myself with a wildcard DNS sub-domain I own for a local machine. I have a number of such Apache Vhost configurations setup.