how to create a virtual host in ubuntu 14.04 - php

Question

I'm using ubuntu 14.04 operating system and I want to create a virtual host before starting my php project. If any one can give me the terminal commands I would be grateful.
I have already installed necessary installations and I'm using Symfony php framework.

Answer 1

Open a terminal or a console and write the following commands
Go to your sites-available apache2 folder with:
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
Copy your 000-default.conf to another file (with the name of your site or vhost Preferably)
sudo cp 000-default.conf example.conf
Open that new file (example.conf) with your best text editor or use:
sudo nano example.conf
Change the example.conf's content with (Ignore the comments):
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
ServerAdmin webmaster#mail.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
# example.com is the folder where you have to put your site's code.
# Obviously, its name can be whatever you want
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example.com
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
# Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
Enable the site as follows:
sudo a2ensite example.com
Restart your apache2 web server
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Edit your /etc/host file with:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Add at the end of the file, the domain example.com and www.example.com. It must look like:
127.0.0.1 localhost
...
# you can replace with your IP
127.0.0.1 example.com
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
...
Open your best web browser and write in its address bar: www.example.com or example.com

Answer 2

Create virtual host
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Enter Password=>
create ip and domain Name=>
127.0.0.1 testsite.lk
create project folder=>
Go to that directory comand prompt=>
sudo chmod -R 777 testsite.lk
to asign project to group=>
:~/mayura$
> sudo chown -R www-data:www-data testsite.lk/
give permission=>
:~/mayura$
sudo chmod -R 777 testsite.lk/
give document root file for vertual host
:~/mayura$
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
sudo nano testsite.lk.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/mayura/project/testsite/web
DirectoryIndex index.php
ServerName testsite
<Directory "/home/mayura/project/testsite/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Create New project on Netbeans in that folder=>
index.php
Enable the site=>
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo a2ensite testsite.lk.conf
Apache reload=>
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Start Browser=>
Run=>
xdg-open http://testsite.lk