How To Add Codeigniter App Site to Apache2 2.4.x on linux

add-codeigniter-app-apache2-linux.md

Add Codeigniter app site to Apache2 web server on Ubuntu

(tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and Apache 2.4.52)

PREMISES:

• here the website is a PHP framework app called appname which has a /appname/public folder which is the one to browse
• I want also a virtual host appaname.box which later will allow to browse to http://appname.box
• It will listen on port 80

1. Add site configration

• Go to /etc/apache2/sites-available
• Open terminal and execute sudo cp 000-default.conf appname.box.conf
• Open site config sudo nano appname.box.conf and change content to:

<VirtualHost *:80>

	ServerAdmin admin@example.com

	ServerName appname.box

	ServerAlias appname.box

	DocumentRoot "/var/www/appname/public"

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

	<Directory "/var/www/appname/public">
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

2. Enable site and restart apache

• Enable site - sudo a2ensite appname.box.conf
• Restart Apache - sudo service apache2 restart

to disable site use sudo a2dissite appname.box.conf

3. Configure local hosts file

In the file appname.box.conf the line ServerAlias appname.box after ServerAdmin creates the virtual host

• Go to /etc, open terminal and execute sudo nano hosts.
• Add line 127.0.0.1 appname.box
• Configure hosts on each computer of your LAN that should use the app
• Restart Apache

4. Browse site

Open http://appname.box in the browser.

5. Possible issues with permissions

if browsing to http://appname.box results in a blank empty webpage, change user owner at the app site tree to Apache2 www-data user with chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/MySite