Configuring Symfony 5 Application on Apache server - php

Question

I need some help with configuring Symfony on apache2 web server.
My current project category structure is:
var/www/domain.com/public_html
Inside public_html is where my Symfony application is located.
I am stuck at figuring our what I am doing wrong in my either .htaccess or /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com.conf files.
I am using symfony/apache-pack. My .htaccess files live inside /public folder as per documentation. Here it is:
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$0 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$
RewriteRule .* - [E=BASE:%1]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .+
RewriteRule ^ - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%0]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} =""
RewriteRule ^index\.php(?:/(.*)|$) %{ENV:BASE}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 307 ^/$ /index.php/
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
And here is my /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin someemail#example.com
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.com/public_html/public
<Directory /var/www/mydomain.com/public_html/public>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.mydomain.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
I also read this and updated 000-default.conf as follows:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.com/public_html/public
<Directory /var/www/domain.com/public_html/public>
Options FollowSymlinks MultiViews
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
Allow from All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml >
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
For the moment I am still seeing symfony project folder structure.
I tried:
inside .htaccess changing DirectoryIndex to /public/index.php
inside .conf file changin DocumentRoot to /va/www/domain.com/public_html/public
tried clearing cache
SO far nothings seems to help.
Would be extremely helpful for any advice.

Answer 1

I see that you are editing vhost which begins with
<VirtualHost *:80>......
That mean your website should be reachable by 80 port or in other words by http protocol. But! If in reality you are accessing your website by https protocol then make sure you are editing right Apache2 .conf file.
If the website is reachable by https protocol (especially if you use LetEncrypt), then try locating /etc/apache2/sites-available/....-le-ssl.conf config file (or similar one with corresponding domain title and with ssl prefix or postfix in it's name).
After editing that file do not forget to restart Apache2 webserver with $sudo service apache2 restart and test website again.