Running an existing project under Symfony framework - php

Question

I'm new to the symfony framework and not good at php, and I've come to task of running an existing backup of project.
To get in touch with it, I've run a debian 8 server on virtual machine locally.
To make sure I know how symfony works I decided to run the symfony demo.
The problem is I'm not sure if I'm configuring it well with apache2, as I've followed the guide on symfony's site.
I've installed the symfony demo under /var/www/html/symfony_demo
This is my sites-avaliable
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.tld
ServerAlias www.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/symfony_demo/web
<Directory /var/www/symfony_demo/web>
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
# uncomment the following lines if you install assets as symlinks
# or run into problems when compiling LESS/Sass/CoffeeScript assets
# <Directory /var/www/project>
# Options FollowSymlinks
# </Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/project_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/project_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I've executed php bin/console server:start from the symfony_demo directory.
Web server is up and running on the default 127.0.0.1:8000.
When trying to access the apache2 default index.html before the changes to sites-avaliable, under :80 it was all okay. My 192.168.0.100 was accessible just okay from the browser. But after changing the configuration, and trying to get to 192.168.0.100:8000 I get unable to connect.
I need help troubleshooting this because I dont know where to seek for problem. Ask anything.

Answer 1

See your .htaccess config in the /var/www/symfony_demo/web directory and look if app.php is config as DirectoryIndex. Maybe you need to add DirectoyIndex to your config because Apache is searching for index.html or index.php but not for app.php:
DocumentRoot /var/www/symfony_demo/web
<Directory /var/www/symfony_demo/web>
DirectoryIndex app.php
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

Answer 2

What to do from this point?
edit app_dev.php ( as mentionned is your error )
// This check prevents access to debug front controllers that are deployed by accident to production servers.
// Feel free to remove this, extend it, or make something more sophisticated.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])
|| isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])
|| !in_array(#$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', 'fe80::1', '::1'))
) {
header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');
exit('You are not allowed to access this file. Check '.basename(__FILE__).' for more information.');
}
add your ip to
|| !in_array(#$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', 'fe80::1', '::1'))
or comment th whole block