vhosts no DNS

@acanton77 writes:

Just a guess… are you sure it shouldn't be /public_html?

It can be whatever you want/need… The directory can be anywhere in the file system as long as it exists and the ownership/permissions are correct.

@andypastor writes:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/myci/public"
ServerName myci.loc
ServerAlias myci.loc *.myci.loc

Without DNS these are just placeholders and do nothing (as, essentially, does <VirtualHost>…). Try changing

<Directory /var/www/myci/public>

to

Alias "/mci.loc" "/var/www/myci/public"
<Directory /var/www/myci/public>

and restart apache2. When you finally get around to setting up the domain mci.loc, you'll remove the Alias.

-- sw

P.S. You don't want to use a wildcard in ServerAlias…enumerate the aliases:

ServerAlias www.mci.loc
ServerAlias www2.mci.loc

etc. Also, you don't need to make a ServerAlias for the name used in ServerName.

P.P.S. The logs are there for a reason. They should be your first resource in determining what's wrong.

P.P.P.S. @andypastor also writes:

it's using the codeigniter 4 framework with a composer installation

You're probably going to want

DirectoryIndex index.php

too…put it before Alias.

Having a peek at your <VirtualHost> configuration would be a great help in answering your question.

Post the vhost configuration between two sets of ``` (backticks…on the key next to 1) to prevent the comment board software from interpreting special characters.

-- sw

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/myci/public"
    ServerName myci.loc
    ServerAlias myci.loc *.myci.loc

    ErrorLog "/home/andyp/developer/php/logs/my_ci_error_log"
    CustomLog "/home/andyp/developer/php/logs/my_ci_access_log" common

    <Directory /var/www/myci/public>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride all
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

     # Enable RewriteEngine
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteOptions inherit

    # Block .svn, .git
    RewriteRule \.(svn|git)(/)?$ - [F]

    # Recommended: XSS protection
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
        Header always append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
    </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

then I was trying to access to
http://ipaddress/myci.loc/

"/var/www/myci/public"

Just a guess… are you sure it shouldn't be /public_html?

it's using the codeigniter 4 framework with a composer installation

I realise that I wasn't able to follow Step 3

1. If you have not already, assign Linode’s name servers to your domain at your domain name’s registrar.

Will this work if I don't have a domain? Here's my current conf

<VirtualHost *:80>    
    ServerName myci.loc

    ErrorLog "/home/andyp/developer/php/logs/my_ci_error_log"
    CustomLog "/home/andyp/developer/php/logs/my_ci_access_log" common  

    DocumentRoot "/var/www/myci/public"

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    Alias "/mci.loc" "/var/www/myci/public"
    <Directory /var/www/myci/public/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews 
        AllowOverride all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I'm getting a 404 when I access http://ip-address/mci.loc/

Will this work if I don't have a domain?

It should. I would add

ServerAlias www.myci.loc

just for anal retentiveness ;-)

If you have a domain, you won't need Alias…DocumentRoot does that for you.

I'm getting a 404 when I access http://ip-address/mci.loc/

Progress… Did you check the error log? That's what it's there for…

My suspicion is that /var/www/myci/public (or some component of the path for ErrorLog/CustomLog) has incorrect ownership or permissions or index.php doesn't exist or PHP is not configured right some such.

-- sw

P.S. I would also change

ErrorLog "/home/andyp/developer/php/logs/my_ci_error_log"

to

LogLevel warn
ErrorLog "/home/andyp/developer/php/logs/my_ci_error_log"

to get more log information. This, again, is for anal retentiveness…

thank you for the assistance you have provided. I think I understand it better now.