Apache virtual hosting and URL prefixes

Question

I am having a bit of trouble with processing PHP after
setting up a virtual server on apache.
This is the setup:
Apache is installed and the document root is "C:\Program
Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs" which was originally set as
localhost as well
Virtual hosting is to be set up for "C:\WEBSITES\mysite" This
directory, you will note,is outside the htdocs directory.
I edited the httpd.conf file as follows to set up a virtual
server.
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\WEBSITES\mysite"
ServerName mysite.local
</VirtualHost>
I didnt forget to remap localhost either ..........
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
the hosts file got tweaked too to include this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mysite.local
Everything was restarted and hey presto localhost still
processes PHP properly but mysite doesnt.
I am pretty sure i've set the url prefix wrong. The DWeaver
help files refer to an IIS setup. Could anybody fill me in on what
to put in this line and why. Any other pitfalls in setting this up
would also be kindly received
PS - port 80 is the listening port if it helps.

Answer 1

All I did when I set up Apache was to set the document root
to what I
wanted:
DocumentRoot "C:\webserver"
and I put my documents in the "webserver" directory. I did
this cause the
htdocs directory path is way long .. it works fine.
Mine is localhost:8080 cause I have IIS on 80 but I don't see
where it
should matter.
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"mark81" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am having a bit of trouble with processing PHP after
setting up a virtual
> server on apache.
>
>
> This is the setup:
>
> Apache is installed and the document root is "C:\Program
Files\Apache
> Group\Apache2\htdocs" which was originally set as
localhost as well
>
> Virtual hosting is to be set up for "C:\WEBSITES\mysite"
This directory,
> you
> will note,is outside the htdocs directory.
>
>
>
> I edited the httpd.conf file as follows to set up a
virtual server.
>
> <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
> DocumentRoot "C:\WEBSITES\mysite"
> ServerName mysite.local
> </VirtualHost>
>
> I didnt forget to remap localhost either ..........
> <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
> DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\Apache
Group\Apache2\htdocs"
> ServerName localhost
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
> the hosts file got tweaked too to include this:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.0.1 mysite.local
>
>
> Everything was restarted and hey presto localhost still
processes PHP
> properly
> but mysite doesnt.
>
>
> I am pretty sure i've set the url prefix wrong. The
DWeaver help files
> refer
> to an IIS setup. Could anybody fill me in on what to put
in this line and
> why.
> Any other pitfalls in setting this up would also be
kindly received
>
>
> PS - port 80 is the listening port if it helps.
>
>