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LAMPP - Multiple Virtual Host Setup

2009-04-21T20:36:00.000-07:00

Last time we have talked about setting up Multiple Virtual Host for our XAMPP. However it is only for Windows and ihave think about it that it would be good to do a little research for setting up Multiple Virtual Host for Linux Xampp or Lampp and post it here.

Just Follow this LAMPP - Multiple Virtual Host Setup for easy setup for your new sets of Virtual Host's

To begin with. Let us locate the installation directory of our Xampp/lampp on our computer. As for mine it was installed at "/opt/lampp/".
So, for the rest of the article i will refer to the installation directory of Lampp as "Lamp-Dir" and currently Lamp-Dir = /opt/lampp.

Now let us open our Terminal and type in "gksudo nautilus" for us to have some admin priveledges. Nautilus will help you modify some files easily, directly from GEdit.

Using Nautilus, browse to "Lampp-dir/etc/extra" and open the "httpd-vhosts.conf".

By default there are two VirtualHost sections, each contained between the tag. We will do some changes to these sections now. The first section we should change it to point to localhost . Should look like this:

ServerAdmin admin@localhost
DocumentRoot Lampp-dir/htdocs
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
ErrorLog localhost
CustomLog localhost-access_log common

Next, for every other additional virtual host you will append the same block of code to your "httpd-vhosts.conf"file, but making some slight changes. For example, if you want to add the virtual host myhost.com , whose files are located in "Lampp-dir/htdocs/myhost" , you will add this code:

ServerAdmin admin@myhost
DocumentRoot Lampp-dir/htdocs/myhost
ServerName myhost.com
ErrorLog logs/myhost-error_log
CustomLog logs/myhost-access_log common

Notice that DocumentRoot and ServerName has been changed. ServerAlias is not needed anymore. Save the file.

Next you should enable virtual hosts in the configuration file, located at Lampp-dir/etc . Open the file "httpd.conf"with nautilus, and uncomment the line:
#Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Save the file.
Now we should add the domain name to the hosts file in order for the domain name to point to our ip address 127.0.0.1 , but not to look for it in the DNS database. So go to "/etc/" with Nautilus, also, and open this file: hosts . Now at the end of the file append the following line :
127.0.0.1 myhost.com
(or change myhost.com to the name of your own virtual host name).
Do the same thing for all the other virtual hosts you have. Save the file.

Now we will need to restart Xampp/Lampp in order for the changes to take effect. Open a terminal window and run this command:
gksudo Lampp-dir/lampp restart

Now you should be able to work with your new virtual hosts, by going with your browser to "http://myhost.com/"

Setup Multiple Virtual Hosts for Xampp

2009-03-25T08:38:00.000-07:00

Lets move off the topic for now.
Since we have installed our cake files on our server and configured our pc to be able to run cake bake, why dont we make it more look good by directly having our apps name as the address on our server
i.e: http://myapp

hows that sound?

I will share here how to config xampp to have a multiple virtual host.
Why would i want to setup a multiple vhost?
This is because i would like to organize my files where in i need not to bother my self of sub directories. It would also seem like you are working online.

1. proceed to our httpd-vhosts.conf
path-to-apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
open the httpd-vhosts.conf on your text-editor.

2. uncomment the line which says NameVirtualHost *:80

3. We can now start adding our Virtual Host Entry check the lines below


  <virtualhost *80>

       ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
       DocumentRoot G:/xampp/htdocs/pancake
       ServerName pancake

       <directory "G:/xampp/htdocs/pancake">
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
       </directory>
  </virtualhost>

The DocumentRoot value will be the directory for your new virtual host
i.e:
G:/xampp/pancakes
G:/xampp/public_html
The ServerName value will be your desired name for your new virtual host
i.e:
pancakes - accessed as http://pancakes
myapp - accessed as http://myapp
The Directory value must be equal to the value of your DocementRoot.

*please use forward slash for the DocumentRoot and Directory

4. Next we will do is to tell our machine what to do with the url to our new Virtual Host
if we use it on our browser.
first we open the file hosts on our text editor from C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

5. Lets us now add this line

     127.0.0.1  pancakes

This is to map your host to your IP

6. Last thing to do is to remove the index.php from your htdocs this is to avoid seeing the xampp's page on your new virtual host.

*After doing this you might not be able to access the http://localhot on your browser therefore you should add another entry on your Vhost. see code below

  <virtualhost>

       ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
       DocumentRoot G:/xampp/htdocs/
       ServerName localhost

       <directory "G:/xampp/htdocs/">
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
       </directory>
  </virtualhost>

Setup CakePHP

2009-02-22T23:47:00.000-08:00

Setting up cakephp was just easy, i have it up and running already, but after i have started developing an app on it with the example provided i have encountered an error. What should i do?..

This also what i have encoutered. so let me do it to you step by step
1. Extract cakephp on your root-directory. I'll be preserving the names of the folder here.
so our file structure would be:

"root-directory/
-cake

index,php

.htaccess

cake

app

cake

docs

vendors
"

2. You should also add the php and bake executable to your environment variable. To do this,

1. go to the Windows System Properties dialog, then select the Advanced tab, and click on Environment Variables.
2. On the System variables list. Select Path then edit.
3. Type in the directory for your php.exe and cake console. as in my case it will be
"c:/xampp/php/" for my php.exe.
"c:/xampp/htdocs/cake/cake/console" for my cake console.

3. To be able to use .htaccess for cake pretty urls open your httpd.conf and uncomment the line which says
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Glosary

2009-02-22T23:46:00.000-08:00

Nothing here yet

Notes of Cakephp Baker

2009-02-07T07:50:00.000-08:00

Staying in front of my without a task was really boring. Finishing a day sitting on my chair waiting for my clients to pop in and say hey i've got new task for you. But at i just ended up on just waiting for it and have finished reading my fave anime manga's. ehehe... Im at my third day of not recieving a task from my client although hi paying for me(:grin: well eheheh... its great to just recieve money with having to sweat your a-s off.) but its no fun at all... aaahhhhh

Ok ok ok.. so you are saying now where the heck is cakephp here?? im not here to listen to your woes!!!

Ok so i'll start now... since i also want to learn cake.

Lets prepare first your PC/MAC or whatever you call it.
You must have installed already your webserver having PHP4.x.x or PHP5 and mysql or you can get the whole package from apachefriends.

I'll be using xampp for my webserver running on windows Xp.
I also have my xampp installed at a "C:/xampp" directory and my root directory will be "C:/xampp/htdocs/"

Can i use cake now?... nope were not done preparing yet. we still need to download our cake php.
and extract the content of the file to our root directory.