Lesson 2 from “Learn symfony 2.4 tutorial” : Creating a development environment
Now we have a fresh symfony2 app. If not, please read the first tutorial about how to install symfony2.4.
We can access the symfony2.4 application on http://localhost/path_to_sf_project/web/app_dev.php. But the name is not so cool, right ?
We will learn in this tutorial how to create a local domain like http://innobyte.dev (you can choose any domain you want).
** Note : This instructions are specific to Apache (We should create a tutorial example for nginx too ?) and assume you have already installed Apache and running on your machine.
Step 1.First, we need to create a new file (we need sudo privileges)
sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/innobyte.dev.conf
Step 2. Edit the file created (/etc/apache2/sites-available/innobyte.dev.conf) with your favorite ide and add :
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName innobyte.dev
ServerAlias www.innobyte.dev
DocumentRoot /var/www/path_to_sf_project/web
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
#Order allow,deny
allow from all
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<directory "="" usr="" lib="" cgi-bin"="">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
#Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
**Note : Change the path_to_sf_project with your path folder to symfony project
If you want to read more about apache vhosts, you can read here.
Step 3. Activate your new local domain
sudo a2ensite innobyte.dev.conf
Step 4. Add a new domain to the bottom of the host file (/etc/hosts) – you need edit this with sudo too.
127.0.0.1 innobyte.dev www.innobyte.dev
Step 5. Reload the apache service to get the new configuration
sudo service apache2 reload
Step 6. edit the /var/www/path_to_sf_project/web/.htaccess file
Change app.php to app_dev.php (to use dev environment – make sure you change all occurrences of app to app_dev, should be 4 changes)
Now we can go to http://innobyte.dev. Easy, right ?
