Installing and configuring apache web. Installation and basic configuration of phpMyAdmin. Configuring Apache Virtual Hosts

This ends file editing. Next, in the remaining files we edit only the paths:
File "httpd-manual.conf":
AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:da|de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru|tr|zh-cn))?(/.*)?$ "C:/ Server/web/apache/manual$1"

No changes are made to the “httpd-default.conf” file. This completes the Apache configuration setup.

PHP setup

Setting up php.ini

short_open_tag = On
zlib.output_compression = On
post_max_size = 64M
include_path = ".;C:\Server\web\php\includes"
extension_dir = "C:/Server/web/php/ext"
upload_tmp_dir = "C:/Server/web/php/upload"
upload_max_filesize = 64M
extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
extension=php_sockets.dll
extension=php_sqlite3.dll
; in the section we indicate the time zone of our server (http://php.net/date.timezone)
date.timezone = "Asia/Yekaterinburg"
session.save_path = "From:/Server/web/php/tmp/"

Setting up MySQL

1. Drag your mouse cursor to the lower right corner of the screen
2. Click the Search icon and enter: control panel
3. Select System->Advanced
4. Select Environment Variables, from the System Variables menu, find the PATH variable and click on it.
5. Enter the paths to Apache and MySQL:

Next, let’s start our server; to do this, run “start-server.bat” as an administrator. Once the server has started, open your browser and enter “localhost” in the address bar.
The PHP information page should appear.

In this article I will talk about how to set up a local development environment with your own hands. Of course, you can use ready-made solutions, for example, and others like it. But, look at the comments to and. Either Denver is not installed, or Apache does not start, or it is not known where Denver hid the databases.

In addition, the hosting provider’s server does not have a development package, but native distributions of Apache, MySQL and PHP. Just the other day, I was faced with a situation where the site being created worked normally in an installed and manually configured development environment, but under Denver it did not work at all.

A ready-made development environment often lacks flexibility in settings. Configuration files are hidden in well-known places in Denver.

Personally, I have some kind of schizophrenic fear that the builder of a local development package got into the distribution kit with his own hands, corrected something there at his own discretion, picked something up, and maybe even inserted a virus (that’s why I don’t use various tweaked assemblies of Windows and I set up my local development environment myself).

I will describe the process in detail installing and configuring Apache server to your local computer. This will allow you to get rid of the magical awe of the principles of operation of the site from the hosting provider’s server.

Besides, install and configure PHP. In the case of manually downloading the distribution from the developer’s website, I can be sure that I am downloading the full version of the package, the one that I need. And a situation with the need to additionally install modules discarded by the author of the distribution kit of a ready-made development environment cannot arise. From now on, I myself am the author of the development environment.

Installing and configuring MySQL. Exactly the same situation. The author is myself.

A few words for beginners. Why do we need a local development environment at all? If you are developing a site that will consist of several static HTML pages, then the development environment is just a convenience when viewing the site in a browser while debugging. It is convenient to access the site being developed using a domain name. That seems to be all the advantages.

In the case of developing a dynamic website (using PHP scripts and MySQL databases), as well as when working with engines, a local development environment is a necessity. Because, in this case, you need a tool that processes PHP scripts and SQL queries.

Well, let's go!

Installing Apache

I promised to save you from the magical awe of the principles of loading a site from a hosting provider's server in your browser. I'll do it now.

A server is nothing more than a powerful computer on whose hard drive your website files are stored. Typically, such a computer runs Unix-like systems. This computer is running a program called Apache. When accessing server port 80, the Apache program will provide the accessing computer with HTML code and graphic files stored on the hard drive. The user's computer browser will accept the received data and format it into a familiar site page.

The server's hard drive can contain several sites at once. All of them are distributed into folders with unique names (in this case, the sites are called virtual hosts). Apache is configured in such a way that when accessing port 80 with a specific site URL, it knows exactly what data and from which folder it needs to be sent to the requesting computer.

That's all the magic. When I just started to understand Internet technologies, such an answer to my question “how do websites really work,” which I read in one of the books, put everything in its place in my head, which I was very happy about. I hope some of our respected readers were no less delighted now than I was at one time.

Now I'll tell you how to install and configure Apache on your local computer.

After installing and configuring Apache, you can enter the domain name you came up with into the browser, which will be matched to the site being developed on the local computer, and the local server will provide the browser with the requested HTML.

Step 1. Download Apache.

On the next screen, be sure to check the box Include Bin Directory in Windows PATH:

If you don't do this, PHP won't be able to find the file it needs and will complain.

Click Next. In the next window we need to specify the database administrator password. Indicate something easy to remember. Then, when connecting to databases, you will need to enter this password:

At this point, the process of setting directives for configuration is completed and you can begin to apply them:

Now our local development environment can be considered installed. All that remains is to configure it.

Apache Setup and PHP Setup

First, somewhere on your hard drive you need to create a folder in which all projects will be stored.

I have this folder www at the root of the disk " WITH».

Step 1: Allow Apache access to dad www on your hard drive.

Now in the Apache settings I need to specify the path to this folder and allow access.

To do this, open the main Apache configuration file in any text editor. This is a file .

In the file we look for a block of instructions:

AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all

Below this block we insert the following instructions:

AllowOverride All # Options None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all

Thus, we allowed Apache access to the folder www at the root of the hard drive.

Step 2. Create a place to store site files.

In folder www you need to create a folder with the name of our site (for example mysite). In folder mysite create two more folders: www- for storing site files and logs- here Apache will automatically record errors related to server operation and information about connections to the site.

Since work is usually carried out with several sites (i.e. in the folder www the root of the hard drive, there may be several projects: mysite, mysite1, noviysite etc.) available at different local URLs, then you need configure Apache to work with virtual hosts.

To do this, in the configuration file C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf need to connect additional virtual host configuration file.

Looking in the file httpd.conf line #Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. The process of including an additional virtual hosts configuration file is to remove the hash (#) character before this line.

#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

The fact is that in the Apache settings, the hash symbol (#) indicates a commented out line that is not involved in the server configuration.

The additional configuration file is now connected. Here is the file: . Again, open this file in any text editor and describe access to the site being developed.

At the end of the file you need to add the following block:

ServerName moysite.loc DocumentRoot "C:/www/moysite/www" ErrorLog "C:/www/moysite/logs/error.log" CustomLog "C:/www/moysite/logs/access.log" common

Paragraph ServerName specifies the URL that will be used to access the site being developed from the local computer browser, the files of which are located in the folder C:/www/moysite/www. File C:/www/moysite/logs/error.log will contain information about errors in the operation of the site, and the file C:/www/moysite/logs/access.log- information about connections.

Step 3: Redirect requests to the local server.

The last step is to redirect requests to the local server. We need to tell Windows that when the browser requests the URL mysite.loc it should be processed by our local Apache. To do this, open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\host in any text editor and add one line at the end: 127.0.0.1 moysite.loc.

That's all, now we restart Apache by left-clicking on the icon next to the clock and selecting Restart.

I draw your attention, dear reader, to the fact that it is necessary to restart Apache with any changes in its configuration and in the PHP configuration in order for the changes to be applied.

Let's shine

If during project development you are using CNC, then you need to enable the mod_rewrite.so module in the main Apache configuration file C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf.

Enabling the module is done by simply uncommenting the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Using shortened tags. Some lazy programmers instead of complete code ..., at the beginning of the PHP script, use the shortened form ... To enable shortened tags, you need to configure the PHP configuration file C:\Program Files\PHP\php.ini: