These are my VM setup:
HOST: windows 7 ultimate 32bit
GUEST: CentOs 6.3 i386
Virtualization soft: Oracle virtualBox 4.1.22
Networking: NAT -> (PORT FORWARD: HOST:8080 => GUEST:80)
Shared Folder: centos
all the project files goes into shared folder and for each project file a virtualhost conf file is created in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ like /etc/httpd/conf.d/$domain
I wasn't able to see anything in my browser before disabling both windows firewall and iptables in centos after that if i type for example: http://www.$domain:8080/ all i see is:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.$domain.com Port 8080
A sample Virtual Host conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
#General
DocumentRoot /media/sf_centos/path/to/public_html
ServerAdmin webmaster#$domain
ServerName www.$domain
ServerAlias $domain *.$domain
#Logging
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-access.log combined
#mod rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 0
</VirtualHost>
centos shared folder is availabe to guest at /media/sf_centos
These are file permissons for sf_centos:
drwxrwx--- root vboxsf
vboxsf group includes: apache and root
So these are my questions:
1- How to solve Forbidden Problem?
2- How to setup both host and guest firewalls?
3- How can improve this development environment to simulate production environment as much as possible specially security improvements?
For #1/2: This is a permissions issue due to the auto-mounting method that VirtualBox uses. Instead of auto-mounting you have to mount it manually.
The post by suomynona (3rd reply) has some step-by-step instructions on resolving this issue:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=38891#p179152
As for #3, a standard practice is to have a staging server that mimics production as closely as possible (same OS, same updates, versions, etc). That will allow you to deploy from your local development environment for integration testing before you deploy to production. Sometimes we'll even set up our dev VM's to use the same OS as production for more complex projects where version/compatibility issues may cause headaches.
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I have installed Magento in my personal laptop with XAMP (windows 10) all looks good. Followed the same steps on another laptop and not able to get Magento running.
Found that port 80 is occupied in the new laptop and configured xamp with port 8090, Apache, Phymyadmin and all works good. Following is my configuration for virtual hosts file
<VirtualHost *:8090>
DocumentRoot "C:/M/xampp8.1/htdocs/magento2/pub"
ServerName kumar.magento245.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8090>
DocumentRoot "C:/M/xampp8.1/htdocs"
ServerName localhost:8090
</VirtualHost>
Following in windows hosts file
127.0.0.1:8090 kumar.magento245.com
XAMP Apache running on port 8090
when i enter kumar.magento245.com gives 404 error
I assure you the rest of the installation is in sync with my earlier laptop (that dont have any service running on port 80 and i dint changed the hosts file)
Kindly please advise what to be done..
Not planning to change/edit the service running on port 80 .
when i enter kumar.magento245.com gives 404 error.. it should got my local magento running ( installed at C:/M/xampp8.1/htdocs/magento2/pub )
I followed a response in the following thread #Raz0rwire and solved my issue.
Set up virtual hosts on Apache (XAMPP, Windows 10)
accessed the url like this kumar.magento245.com:8090 port number at the end..
Welcome to SO #kumar2023,
There could be multiple possibilities for resolving this issue,
in this case, I would prefer the below steps :
Try running Magento with the direct browser URL ie. https://yourmagnetopath/pub and ensure at least my Magento has been installed
correctly
Try removing the default ports and their entries, in my case well I am using ubuntu hence there could be a case of caching if you tried multiple times with the same URL.
Try with the incognito browser or I would prefer a new browser where you haven't tried to run this URL.
Just give a try with the newer domain (again there could be a reason for caching)
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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on XAMPP (Windows)
##Full guideline to make VHOST (Virtual Host) on XAMPP/WAMP
Note: To start with, the only difference for this guideline, between XAMPP and WAMP or other Apache packages for Windows, is question where those packages are installed on your computer.
Introduction: vhost (virtual host) is a great solution if you intend to develop many independent project in php and keep them isolated from each others, like:
Project 1 is based on php and has local url address php.localhost
Project 2 is a Laravel project with url laravel.localhost
Project 3 is a Codeigniter with url codeigniter.localhost
Project 4 is a WordPress with url wordpress.localhost
You are expected to have installed the latest version of XAMPP/WAMP. Btw, in my case, I have only installed Apache and MySQL.
*Note: By default, most web servers will uses port 80 as default port, in some situation if you have another web server installed like (Microsoft IIS), it uses port 80 as well OR in other cases SKYPE does also some times use port 80 like it is the case for some in Windows 8/10 for some users, in that case you can do two thing’s
Change your Apache port to port 8080, 8081 etc. or some other free ports (note: 8080 can some times also give some problems)
OR Change your others software/IIS port and keep Apache to default port 80 in case of Skype, just kill the Skype app and restart it after installing Apache on port 80, Skype will automatically get new port.
I have chosen to change my Apache to port 8080.
Note:
For next section, we need to use text editor like notepad or regular IDE. I used sublime text editor.
If you keep Apache to default port 80, skip this part and move on to Virtual hosts
Change XAMPP/WAMP port (only if necessary)
if left default, then jump to Setting virtual host
Step 1. Edit httpd.conf
Click on Config -> Apache (httpd.conf)
Or you find the file here C:\XAMPP\apache\conf\httpd.conf, C:\XAMPP\apache2\conf\httpd.conf, C:\Bitnami\wampstack\apache\conf\httpd.conf or C:\Bitnami\wampstack\apache2\conf\httpd.conf or similar location.
Change the line with
Listen 80
To 8080 or other, free ports.
Listen 8080
While we have httpd.conf file open we need to ensure that httpd-vhosts.conf is included:
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Virtual hosts
Note: By default server documents are locate on C:\XAMPP\htdocs or C:\Bitnami\wampstack\apache2\htdocs that’s fine if you have only one project or many small test files. However, if you need to develop many projects then it suggested separating them by virtual host, as mentioned earlier.
Step 2. Setting Virtual host
Create a folder for your projects; I have create one in c:\vhost you can call it projects etc.
In c:\vhost folder we create a sub-folder domain1 or project1 or any other, it is up to you (c:\vhost\project1)
Open httpd-vhosts.conf file C:\XAMPP\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf Add following code in line depending on how many vhost you want to create:
<Directory C:/vhost>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
#this is the default address of XAMPP
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
#this is the first vhost address in XAMPP
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "C:/vhost/project1/"
ServerName php.localhost
SetEnv NS_ENV variable_value
</VirtualHost>
#this is the second vhost address in XAMPP for project like Laravel
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "C:/vhost/Laravel-Blog/public"
ServerName laravel.localhost
</VirtualHost>
etc
Note: If you work on Laravel projects you can create unlimited Laravel projects as well as other frameworks like codeigniter, Yii, etc., the point is to
have your Laravel project/s on c:\vhost\laravel1,
c:\vhost\laravel2 etc and make c:\vhost\laravel1\public as
DocumentRoot etc as showed before. Each Laravel project will have own
VirtualHost URL.
Save and close the file
Some additional information and notes:
If port is remain default 80 then the URL address will be localhost
If port is remain default 80 then the the VirtualHost tag should be changed to <VirtualHost *:80>
If port is changed to 8080, the URL address will be localhost:8080
And the vhost URL address could look like this project1.localhost:8080 etc
You can add unlimited projects and virtual host like this way.
We are not ready yet, read more.
Step 3. Edit Windows Host file
Stop Apache and MySQL services from XAMPP/WAMP.
Open hosts file in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
you need Administrator privilege to edit the file.
I suggest to edit the file directly with Sublime text editor.
Add 127.0.0.1 project1.localhost at the end of the file, Save and close the file.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 php.localhost
127.0.0.1 laravel.localhost
127.0.0.1 codeigniter.localhost
127.0.0.1 wordpress.localhost
127.0.0.1 laravel2.localhost
etc. those are just examples
save the file
Final Step.
Start/Re-start your Apache and MySQL again.
**Addition (Suggestion)**
Note: Under you development process you might face problem having cache on, because you can risk updating some thing in Laravel and it won't appear in your browser. Therefore you might need to disable php cache under development process in your local environment.
Open file php.ini under php folder in your Apache (XAMPP or WAMP) folder and
change opcache.enable to 0 so it looks like this:
[opcache]
zend_extension=php_opcache.dll
; Determines if Zend OPCache is enabled
opcache.enable=0
Addition (Alternative solution)
Important: The following solution is not suitable to test Restful Api, canvas, heavy solutions, etc.it might give you some headaches, I would suggest virtual host solution with port 80 as default.
It is possible to deploy temporary Virtual Server with out necessarily configuring XAMPP/WAMP Virtual Host, start CMD console and run following php command:
php -S localhost:8001 -t c:\vhost\Laravel-Project\public
Port 8001 can be change to any available port number and be sure not conflicting with other software ports.
c:\vhost\Laravel... path should be changed to whatever your project path.
It is possible to start multiple servers but should have different port numbers.
In your browser you need only to write
http://localhost:8001/
Note on 403 Access forbidden error
If you get a 403 Access forbidden error when you browse to your site, you may need to add this to your httpd.conf file:
<Directory path_to_dir>
AllowOverride none
Require all granted
</Directory>
You can make your localhost to point to different folders on different port numbers. Follow these simple steps:
Step 1: Make your apache to listen to multiple ports. Go to C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and search for the key word Listen you can see something like this Listen 80. Now tell your apache to listen to multiple ports, replace that with below content
Listen 80
Listen 8001
Listen 8002
Step 2: Now go to “C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf”, this is the actual player. At the end of the file you can specify something like this below:
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/project1"
ServerName localhost:8001
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/project2"
ServerName localhost:8002
Which tells your apache to take different folders on hitting different port numbers. That is when you hit localhost:8001/ it will take the contents from project1, similarly localhost:8002/ will point to your project2 folder.
By doing this we and run 2 different sites on our local machine.
Note: You need to restart your apache whenever you change something in httpd.conf or httpd-vhosts.conf.
Virtual Host create
C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra
Open httpd-vhost file then
Add
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\project\timegrid\public"
ServerName mytimegrid.me(ur choice)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Open hosts file then add 127.0.0.1 mytimegrid.me(Your Domain Name)
N.B. you first open your editor(notepad etc....) as Run As Administrator mode otherwise you can not save these files. ok.
First of all, open your Notepad as an Administrator and
then click on file > open. Then go to your window driver now search for system32 folder and then search for drivers folder and then the etc folder.
Now you'll see a folder of empty files, so don't worry to see Text Documents (*.txt) at the bottom. Change the view to all files and then you will see the vhost file.
Open and enjoy!
I can already tell that I'm probably doing something hideously wrong, but I just can't get anything to work or even acknowledge me.
I have a working Joomla 1.5 site on a localhost setup on a lamp stack with Ubuntu (newest everything). I am working on upgrading the site to a newer version. I've followed the steps on the joomla site, which are simple, just extract the zip file on the server, just like I did for 1.5, and then go to the site. I am doing this in a subdirectory I've called upgrade, physically located at /var/www/upgrade/ and when i try to go to localhost/upgrade, I get a "FORBIDDEN" 403. I tried localhost/upgrade/administrator, localhost/index.php, localhost/administrator/index.php, and even localhost/installation/index.php and nothing works.
I went into the installation/ dir and made and saved the configuration.php and .htaccess in upgrade/ to no avail and as a last resort I even did a chmod -R 777 * (yeah I know), restarted apache but nothing changes.
Just to see if it was the install, I dl'd Joomla 3.2 and got the exact same result. All the while my 1.5 site is still happily working.
What am I doing wrong?
You want to setup a Virtual host for the new site. You can do this with either a port or a host.
So if you have your Apache conf setup correctly you can add another Virtual host with something along the lines of.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/upgrade
ServerName upgrade.local
</VirtualHost>
You'll also need to add a hosts entry which points to your localhost/IP. Its worth checking out a good guide on setting all this up as theres quite a few steps. The Ubuntu one is pretty good if your on that Distro.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
Specifically the bit on Virtual Hosts
ServerName means that the server will listen for hosts with that name. So, if you have a host such as upgrade.local pointing to your server then the VirtualHost entry will pick that up and point it to the directory /var/www/upgrade.
In order to point a local host to your server you need to add it to your machines hosts file. To add a new host like upgrade.local (you can call it whatever you want) you edit /etc/hosts and set the IP it points to.
127.0.0.1 upgrade.local
ServerName is not mandatory but I find it better as its easier to organise your local host sites.
The alternative is to do it by port (which means you can avoid having to change the hosts file). You need to listen for the port in this case.
Listen 3000
<VirtualHost *:3000>
DocumentRoot /var/www/upgrade
</VirtualHost>
After upgrading my MacBook Pro to Mac OS X Lion I am not able anymore to get my 'Zend Server' running like before. At first the 'Zend Server' gave me servile errors by starting it from the command line. I fix this by doing a complete new installation of Zend Server.
After this new installation Zend Server runs fine and no problems at all. So now I want to put back my zend projects. I made a backup of my vhost file and put it back, it seems to be Lion didn't touch my host file so I didn't touch either (just checked). I did the follow things;
Put one of my vhosts back in conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf (just one to check).
Uncomment the vhost include in conf/httpd.conf
Checked my host file
Restart zend server from command line
After this I still cant reach the project by browsing to http://foo.localhost:10088/
Vhosts
<VirtualHost *:10088>
ServerAdmin my#email.com
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
DocumentRoot "/Users/nicky/Zend/workspaces/DefaultWorkspace7/foo/public"
ServerName foo.localhost
ErrorLog "/Users/nicky/Zend/workspaces/foo-log"
CustomLog "/Users/nicky/Zend/workspaces/foo-log" common
</VirtualHost>
Hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 dummy-host.example.com
127.0.0.1 dummy-host2.example.com
127.0.0.1 foo.localhost
I am not sure if this can have effect on the problem, but by restarting zend from the
command line, i get the follow:
MacBook-Pro-van-Nicky-Klaasse:~ nickyklaasse$ sudo /usr/local/zend/bin/zendctl.sh
restarthttpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
using MacBook-Pro-van-Nicky-Klaasse.local for ServerName
Regards,
Nicky
I've had similar problems as well with that. I've been searching around for an answer, found some solutions but none of them seemed to work.
The only thing that finally made it working (not even sure how it actually helped), is going into system preferences -> sharing and enabling web sharing. That is normally starting your apache2 server but I wasn't using the default one, I am running another apache2 process with a different httpd configuration. Anyway, after starting it and stopping it (from the system preferences window), it seemed like it was working.
One thing that could be useful is checking your error_log as well as the access_log in /var/log/apache2/. Check the access_log to see what is the address trying to be resolved. At first, whenever I was making a request on my website through the Virtual Host, in my access log I only had 127.0.0.1 which is incorrect. After it worked, I can see that the requests are www.example.com and not the localhost, showing that the virtual host is indeed working.
Not sure if that will help you, give it a try, paste the access_log and error_log latest lines to see where there could be a problem.
I have an issue on my windows 7, I want to work on php so i tried everything but can not get it done. It always gives
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at nazar-studio:8080.
These are the things i had tried:
Installed WAMP
Installed XAMPP
Installed Apache
Installed IIS
stoped the http service
blocked anti-virus
un-installed anti-virus
stoped skype
Also tried this link
and there are many other things i had done, but invain.
When i check the port using netstat -an it shows the ports listening, i tried many different ports, but nothing works.
Can any one help me, I am really struck and frustrated due to it.
Have you tried connecting to localhost rather than 'nazar-studio'?
Are you sure its running on port 8080?
Is there possibly another process running on port 8080?
Have you checked the error logs? (in #apache install dir#/logs/)
To get Apache running on Windows 7 I did the following.
Switch to Administrator:
Open a command prompt as Admin, type net user Administrator /active:yes and then log off. At the log on screen you will see two options, log in as Administrator.
Install Apache.
Edit conf file to how you want.
Make sure you have set Listen to 8080 (I have mine left as 80).
Don't forget to LoadModule for PHP. Set the ServerName to localhost:8080 (again I have mine as 80).
Set DocumentRoot to the htdocs folder where you installed Apache - mine is C:\Program Files\Apache\2.0.40\htdocs. By connecting to localhost:80 you should be able to see the Apache welcome screen.
Add type info for PHP (AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3).
Create a virtual host. I am guessing yours would look like
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerName nazar-studio.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/Develop/nazar/htdocs"
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
ErrorLog logs/error.nazar.log
CustomLog logs/access.nazar.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Now Edit your hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and add the subnets you have added:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 nazar-studio.localhost
127.0.0.1 test.localhost
Open the command prompt and now type net user Administrator /active:no to disable the admin. Log off and reconnect as you.
Start Apache and you should be able to connect.