Laravel / Virtual Hosts / Apache - aaah

posted 11 years ago

ok .. I am starting to lose hair here. beginner with a lot of the config / environment setting stuff.

Goal: Trying to set up a development folder under /User/username/sites/ldemo. The issue seems like my system is still going off of default apache instead of laravel dev server. The sites folder works good on apache. But when I go to edit something under the laravel index.php, I don't see anything.

I've been following the LearningLaravel2.pdf guide for setup and everything. However, I can't seem to get it going. I have laravel installed successfully. Tested in the /usr/local/bin/ folder.

To get Laravel dev server going, I setup virtual hosts to keep the separation. This is what I have ..

#1. httpd.conf

#Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

#2. httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot "/Users/username/sites/ldemo/public"
    ServerName ldemo.dev
    ServerAlias www.ldemo.dev
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/ldemo.dev-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/ldemo.dev-access_log" common

<Directory "/Users/username/sites/ldemo/public">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow, deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

#3. set up my /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1             localhost
127.0.0.2             www.ldemo.dev
255.255.255.255  broadcasthost
::1                      localhost
fe80::1%lo0         localhost
0.0.0.0                yahoo.com
0.0.0.0                www.yahoo.com

Restart apache & php artisan serve in the folder

.. I get nothing, no error, just nothing. What am I missing? do I need to the .htaccess?

thank you in advance :)

Last updated 3 years ago.

2upmedia

replied 11 years ago

Solution

Add DirectoryIndex:

DocumentRoot "/Users/username/sites/ldemo/public"
DirectoryIndex index.php

Change this:

127.0.0.2             www.ldemo.dev

To this:

127.0.0.1             www.ldemo.dev

Last updated 3 years ago.

marauf

replied 11 years ago

Thanks for the input!

do I remove the localhost from the hosts?

2upmedia said:

Add DirectoryIndex:

DocumentRoot "/Users/username/sites/ldemo/public" DirectoryIndex index.php

Change this:

127.0.0.2 www.ldemo.dev

To this:

127.0.0.1 www.ldemo.dev

Last updated 3 years ago.

2upmedia

replied 11 years ago

Run

$ apachectl -S

If your ldemo.dev VHOST doesn't show up in the output, then there's probably another install of apache on your system.

Last updated 3 years ago.

marauf

replied 11 years ago

got this .. hmm.. what did that command do? compile or something? lol learning as I go .. is there a dummies book on server settings etc?

apachectl -S
Syntax error on line 44 of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:
order takes one argument, 'allow,deny', 'deny,allow', or 'mutual-failure'

Last updated 3 years ago.

marauf

replied 11 years ago

Fixed that up .. ran the command again ..

$ apachectl -S
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using xyz.local for ServerName
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server ldemo.dev (/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:32)
         port 80 namevhost ldemo.dev (/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:32)
         port 80 namevhost dummy-host2.example.com (/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:52)
Syntax OK

Last updated 3 years ago.

marauf

replied 11 years ago

That worked. changed the hosts file. restarted everything. Thanks 2upmedia!

Last updated 3 years ago.

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