Acessing other webapps while one is in document root - php

Question

I have a Zend Framework project on a local machine, and as recommended its /public subfolder is made a DocumentRoot in httpd.conf. So I access this app simply with http://localhost.
This new requirement makes me unable to access other
web apps in a former webserver root (which contains a few regular php apps and a couple of zend framework apps).
What configuration should I choose to be able to simultaneously access both ZF root-based apps and other apps like PHPMYADMIN?

Answer 1

You'll probably need to use some kind of VirtualHost
You have at least two solutions :
VirtualHosts based on diferent port numbers
For instance, you'd have one site on http://localhost/ (ie, default port = 80)
And another one on http://localhost:8001/
And another one on http://localhost:8802/
And so on
VirtualHosts based on different domain-names
For instance, you'd have on site on http://localhost/
And another one on http://mytestwebsite/
In the second case (the solution I always use), you will have to edit your "hosts" file, so "mytestwebsite" is an alias to your local machine -- which IP address is 127.0.0.1
Under windows, this file is located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
On Linux, it's in /etc/
You'd have to add a line like these ones :
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mytestwebsite
Then, in the Apache configuration, you need to create one VirtualHost per site. Something like this, I suppose :
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName mytestwebsite
DocumentRoot /home/squale/developpement/tests
<Directory /home/squale/developpement/tests>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName myothertestwebsite
DocumentRoot /.../myothertestwebsite
<Directory /.../myothertestwebsite>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
(Needs tunning / configuration, of course)
And you'll also probably need some directive like this one :
NameVirtualHost *
Well, this might not be the entire solution (that one depends on your server / applications) ; but I hope these few pointers will help you get to it !
If you need more help, the keyword is "VirtualHost" ;-)
Have fun !

Answer 2

Zend Framework probably uses a .htaccess file. If so, you might use that to add rules to leave the other apps alone. Another option is to use subdomain (eg phpmyadmin.localhost)