Setup VirtualHost for Zend Application on Wamp server - php

Question

I'm following this tutorial to learn how to start a project using ZendFramework
http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/learning.quickstart.create-project.html
When I get to setup a virtual host I get stuck. If I do exactly as the tutorial says, it shows me an error (in all my project, zend or not), says the file wasn't found.
Then I found this tutorial on StackOverflow very handy
Can't run zend framework MVC application on WAMP
Following what the guy on the bottom of the page says takes me to the same error when I try to access my app as zendProject.local/
This is what I got
on hosts (Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts) file
127.0.0.1 blog.local
on httpd-vhosts.conf file
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName blog.local
DocumentRoot /blog/public
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory /blog/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? The browser still says Not Found The requested URL /public was not found on this server when I go to http://blog.local/
I'm running WAMP on Windows. And this is the absolute path to the 'blog' project C:\wamp\www\blog
#Edit RiggsFolly
this is what I got now in the httpd-vhosts.conf file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
AllowOverride All
# make sure this is only allowed to be accessed by the local machine
# then if/when you open one of your other sites up to the internet and somebody uses your IP
# they will get directed here as its the first VH def and then receive a 403 not allowed to access
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.local
DocumentRoot "C:/websites/blog/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory "C:/websites/blog/public">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And I created a new directory at C:/ called 'websites' as you suggested

Answer 1

You need to be a little more specific with your folder locations. I guess this tutorial was written for Unix and you are using windows.
For Apache 2.2.x use this syntax:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.local
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/blog/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/blog/public">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
You would be better avoiding the Allow from all and using Allow from localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1 until you actually want to allow the universe to see your sites.
For Apache 2.4.x use this syntax:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.local
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/blog/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/blog/public">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Note NameVirtualHost *:80 no longer required for Apache 2.4.x
Again you would be better avoiding the Require all granted and using Require local until you actually want to allow the universe to see your sites.
EDITED After comment from Questioner:
Right, that's the Apache default. If you enter a url it cannot find a Virtual Host definition for it will default to the first Virtual Host definition you gave it, the blog in your case.
Ok, so now you need to create a Virtual Host for each of your other projects, and MOST IMPORTANTLY the first one needs to be localhost and only be allowed to be accessed from the local PC for a bit of extra security.
Now personally I would take this opportunity to move my actual sites to a totally separate folder structure outside the \wamp\ folder structure so there is no confusion with rights given to the \wamp\www folder and my other sites.
So for example, create a folder c:\websites\www and in that folder create a folder for each of your projects eg
c:\websites\www\blog
c:\websites\www\project2
Then point your virtual hosts to the relevant folder containing the site code ( this can be on another disk if you like ). This allows you to specify the Apache security ( who is allowed in to this site) specifically for each of your VHOSTS. So when you want a client or friend to be able to play with one site, you just change the security on that one site while you let them play.
Like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
AllowOverride All
# make sure this is only allowed to be accessed by the local machine
# then if/when you open one of your other sites up to the internet and somebody uses your IP
# they will get directed here as its the first VH def and then receive a 403 not allowed to access
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.local
DocumentRoot "C:/websites/www/blog/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory "C:/websites/www/blog/public">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName project2.dev
DocumentRoot "C:/websites/www/project2"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<Directory "C:/websites/www/project2">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require local
# this site also available to other PC's on my internal network
Require ip 192.168.0
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Remember, for each new Virtual Host site you create you also need to add that ServerName (project2.dev) to the hosts file.
hosts file:
127.0.0.1 blog.local
127.0.0.1 project2.dev
I hope this helps.