Virtual host on ubuntu 13.10 and apache 2.4.6

Question

I have the following problem
My hosts file is as follows:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       barbala4o-HP-ProBook-4530s
127.0.1.1       mysite.local         


        

Answer 1

I had a same issue ,but None of these above postings worked for me . Later I read and reviewed each and every configuration files of Apache and PHP .

I could figure out that in apache2.conf( in ubuntu 13.10 ) there is a flag called

HostnameLookups off

By Default this will be set to off, I changed this to

HostnameLookups on

By doing so Apache started piking up my host entries and vhost config well .

Also Below is my actual Vhost file . which I used to make it working

Offcourse I too recommend adding Require all granted with in the Vhost directive .

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName test.yoursite.domain.in
    DocumentRoot path_to_code_base/public
    <Directory path_to_code_base/public>
        Options -Indexes
        Require all granted
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog  /path_to_code_base/logs/error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog /path_to_code_base/logs/access.log  combined
</VirtualHost> 

I am posting this to help others who does not want to waste there time in downgrading Ubuntu to 13.04 from 13.10 .

I do-not see this any blogs , I also could not understand what actually the meaning of hostnameLookups is .

Hope this helps .

Answer 2

Execute:
vim can be change with your favourite text editor like nano, pico and etc.

vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Original file:

# Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does
# not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share and /var/www.
# The former is used by web applications packaged in Debian,
# the latter may be used for local directories served by the web server. If
# your system is serving content from a sub-directory in /srv you must allow
# access here, or in any related virtual host.
<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Change None to All

Edit file:

# Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does
# not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share and /var/www.
# The former is used by web applications packaged in Debian,
# the latter may be used for local directories served by the web server. If
# your system is serving content from a sub-directory in /srv you must allow
# access here, or in any related virtual host.
<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>