Setting up a Debian box for development: making a LAMP: apache2

Add a user for the web stuff

# adduser httpd

Choose a simple (but secure) password.

# apt-get install apache2
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The following extra packages will be installed:
  apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common libapr1 libaprutil1
  libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
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Enabling site default.
Enabling module alias.
Enabling module autoindex.
Enabling module dir.
Enabling module env.
Enabling module mime.
Enabling module negotiation.
Enabling module setenvif.
Enabling module status.
Enabling module auth_basic.
Enabling module deflate.
Enabling module authz_default.
Enabling module authz_user.
Enabling module authz_groupfile.
Enabling module authn_file.
Enabling module authz_host.
Enabling module reqtimeout.
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# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!

# nano /etc/apache2/envvars

export APACHE_RUN_USER=httpd
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=httpd

We will activate the Mass Hosting module for Apache so we can develop a bunch of projects at the same time

We need a file to correct the value of DOCUMENT_ROOT when using such module:

<?php

// Let's fix the document root because of a bug in Apache's mod_vhost_alias not
// setting up the correct $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] env variable.
$__mod_vhost_alias_fix_doc_root = dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'domains' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'html';

if (is_dir($__mod_vhost_alias_fix_doc_root)) {
$_SERVER[‘__MOD_VHOST_FIX_OLD_DOCUMENT_ROOT’] = $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’];
    $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] = $__mod_vhost_alias_fix_doc_root;
}

?>

We create a configuration file for virtual hosts:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/vhosts
# get the server name from the Host: header
UseCanonicalName Off

# splittable logs
LogFormat "%{Host}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access_log vcommon

<Directory /home/httpd/domains/portnumber53.local/html>
# ExecCGI is needed here because we can't force
# CGI execution in the way that ScriptAlias does
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
</Directory>

# now for the hard bit

RewriteEngine On

# a ServerName derived from a Host: header may be any case at all
RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower

## deal with normal documents first:
# allow Alias /icons/ to work – repeat for other aliases
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/icons/
# allow CGIs to work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/
# do the magic
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /home/httpd/domains/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/html/$1

## and now deal with CGIs – we have to force a MIME type
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cgi-bin/
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /home/httpd/domains/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/cgi-bin/$1 [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]

# that's it!
a2ensite vhosts
a2dissite default
///////////////
mkdir -p /home/httpd/domains/portnumber53.local/html
echo "PortNumber53.local<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /home/httpd/domains/portnumber53.local/html/index.php

mkdir -p /home/httpd/domains/example.local/html
echo "Example.local<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /home/httpd/domains/example.local/html/index.php

Let's restart Apache:
service apache2 restart

As long as your windows box solves portnumber53.local and example.local to the IP of your debian web box, try opening these domains in your browser.

 

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