inanzzz | How to setup virtual host for symfony project in Mac OS

This post shows you how to set up a symfony project and the virtual host to go with it. We're going to create a project called "sport".

Create database

mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS symfony CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW DATABASES;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| symfony            |
+--------------------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Install symfony

Default webroot in OS is /Library/WebServer/Documents/ so CD into it. Assuming that you've composer installed globally.

Inanzzz-MBP:~ inanzzz$ cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/
Inanzzz-MBP:Documents inanzzz$ composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition sport

Assign permissions

Inanzzz-MBP:~ inanzzz$ cd sport
Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ rm -rf app/cache/*
Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ rm -rf app/logs/*
Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ HTTPDUSER=`ps aux | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ sudo chmod +a "$HTTPDUSER allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs

Create a bundle

Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ php app/console generate:bundle --namespace=Your/NewBundle

Create a virtual host

Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

# Add these lines
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents/sport/web"
    ServerName sport.local

    <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents/sport/web">
        Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/sport.local-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/sport.local-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

Enable virtual host in apache config

Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

# Enable
LoadModule dir_module libexec/apache2/mod_dir.so
LoadModule alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

# <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents"> block should have:
Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews Indexes
AllowOverride All

# Enable
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-languages.conf
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Set host

Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ sudo nano /etc/hosts

# Add this line
127.0.0.1       sport.local

Restart apache

Inanzzz-MBP:sport inanzzz$ sudo apachectl restart

Test

If you call http://sport.local/app_dev.php/hello/inanzzz in your browser, you should see "Hello inanzzz!" message.