Configuring Virtual Host - Keep Seeing Test Page

[engineer-labs]

I'd appreciate a working solution for this:

Virtual host doesn't seem to work as I keep seeing the Zend Server Test Page. I have one virtual host (http://sandbox.loc) and the main host (http://localhost).

Using version Zend Server CE 5.6.1 (Full Installation) & Windows 7 Ultimate (x64).

Uncommented: "Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf" in httpd.conf. Apache is listening at Port 80.

Below is a snippet of my httpd-vhosts.conf:

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NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs"
    <Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs">
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName sandbox.loc
    DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\sandbox"
    <Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\sandbox">
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>


Now my "hosts" file:

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127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       sandbox.loc


Apache was restarted after these changes.

[zvika]

Hi
[UPDATE] - If you meant to use a hostname, pay attention that your vhost sample has localhost and not a custom hostname.

Do you mean you see this page? - 'file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Zend/Apache2/htdocs/index.html' (open in browser)
Rename, Remove or Replace.

[derokorian]

Make sure your files are properly saving. I had this problem, I solved it by saving the httpd.conf and httpd-vhost.conf to my Documents library, made my changes and saved again, and finally copied them back to the original location and this worked perfectly. Lastly don't forget to restart apache, I was able to do this using the apache monitor utility from the notification area.

[engineer-labs]

That did the trick! Thanks a lot derokorian.

Its a bit odd though that editing these files in their original locations doesn't have an effect on the vhost configuration.

Saving it to a folder outside reverts the contents back to its original. Is this a Windows-permissions thing?

[zvika]

I am not sure what the problem with adding vhosts is.

I tested Zend Server 5.6 PHP 5.3 on Windows 7 64-bit.
I'm using a domain user which is a local admin, similar to using Administrator account or a local user who is also in the Admin group.
If there is doubt about user privileges, you might right-click and run as Administrator (open the editor first and load the text file so you open/save with Admin privileges).

I grabbed the ZF2 Skeleton App off github, but you can place any PHP script on any document root to check.

I commented out the extra/vhosts.conf in httpd.conf.

Next, I edited vhosts.conf and added a virtual host pointing to the public dir of the project:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin my-email@zend.com
    DocumentRoot "D:\Data\Workspaces\ZendStudio10\ZF2-SkeletonApp\public"
    ServerName zf2-skeleton
    ErrorLog "logs/zf2-skeleton-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/zf2-skeleton-access.log" common
   <Directory "D:\Data\Workspaces\ZendStudio10\ZF2-SkeletonApp\public">
      Order Allow,Deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>    
</VirtualHost>

To load the new vhost configuration, Restart Apache using the Apache Monitor, or you can execute from console:
> net stop Apache2.2-Zend
> net start Apache2.2-Zend

To get to the named vhost, I added an entry to the hosts file at "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
127.0.0.1 zf2-skeleton

Now open the browser at "http://zf2-skeleton/" and see the new vhost in action.

[engineer-labs]

Most likely it is an issue involving permissions although I edited the conf files as admin in the installation directory.

Probably its not a good idea to edit it there as suggested by derokorian.

[engineer-labs]

There is another strange behavior:

Somehow the contents httpd-vhosts.conf file reverts back to its original state (i.e. no vhosts configured). This happens after restarting my PC.

Does anyone also encounter this problem?

[zvika]

Hi

This is an unlikely behavior - can be a bug or some specific setup / restore feature on your Windows.

If you can replicate the issue on a clean Windows without any special application - please open a support case so we can investigate.
On the other hand - if you find a special 3rd party application which causes this - please mention it here for reference to other Zend Server users.