configure virtual hosts in azure ubuntu to run multiple laravel applications - php

Question

I have created 2 laravel applications in /home/azureuser directory.
I want to run multiple laravel applications on single ubuntu VM. I tried configuring virtual hosts but not able to make it work.
Below is the contents of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName apitesting.cloudapp.net/demo
DocumentRoot /home/azureuser/demoapp/public
<Directory /home/azureuser/demoapp/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV dev
LogLevel warn
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName apitesting.cloudapp.net/quiz
DocumentRoot /home/azureuser/quizapp/public
<Directory /home/azureuser/quizapp/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV dev
LogLevel warn
</VirtualHost>
Not sure whether the above is correct.

Answer 1

It seem we cannot set the ServerName in the URL with a sub path param. As according your requirement, you can leverage the rewrite mod.
First, install apache rewrite mod via command: sudo a2enmod rewrite, then restart apache via: sudo service apache2 restart.
After that, modify the config file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf, config the directory to the parent folder of your applications:
...
DocumentRoot /home/azureuser
ServerName apitesting.cloudapp.net
<Directory /home/azureuser>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
...
Then create a file named .htaccess in the root directory of your application, to redirect the incoming requests to your public folders, with the content:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>