Virtual Host won't run Symfony2 - php

Question

I have Apache2 installed and I have this setup up on my virtual host pointing out to my symfony project.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName topbesterp
ServerAlias www.topbesterp.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/topbesterp/web/
<Directory /var/www/topbesterp/web/>
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/topbesterp/web/>
Options FollowSymlinks
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/project_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/project_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I have added the codes up at the end of the apache2.conf.
And these are the things i added for hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 topbesterp
Whenever I run http://topbesterp on my browser, I receive a blank page.
But whenever I change the Directory of the virtual host to a project that is non-symfony based, it runs okay. Why?

Answer 1

Assuming that you're on LAMP environment so follow the steps below. If MAC then this.
1.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/topbesterp.local.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName topbesterp.local
ServerAlias www.topbesterp.local
ServerAdmin admin#topbesterp.local
DocumentRoot /var/www/topbesterp/web
<Directory /var/www/topbesterp/web/>
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/topbesterp.local.error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/topbesterp.local.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
2.
sudo a2ensite topbesterp.local.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
3.
sudo nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 topbesterp.local www.topbesterp.local

Answer 2

replace /var/www/topbesterp/web/
for
/var/www/topbesterp/web/app_dev.php
or
/var/www/topbesterp/web/app_dev.php

Answer 3

In fact, you don't specify a directory index in your virtual host, try this to get symfony2 first page (app_dev.php is used in development/app.php in production) :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName topbesterp
ServerAlias www.topbesterp.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/topbesterp/web
<Directory /var/www/topbesterp/web>
DirectoryIndex app_dev.php
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/topbesterp/web/>
Options FollowSymlinks
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/project_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/project_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 4

As per my comment, you would need to check app/logs/dev.log or app/logs/prod.logdepending on what environment you are running your application.
If you see some writing errors in the cache/logs folder, you'd need to set up the proper permissions to the app/cache/* and the app/logs/* folders.
Alternatively, you can add umask(0000); at the beginning of the following files:
app/console
web/app_dev.php
web/app.php
And you'd be good to go.