Virtual host example

This example demonstrates how to set up a virtual host on the Apache web server for an eZ Publish installation located in "/var/www/example". Let's say that we want to access eZ Publish by using the following URLs:

http://www.example.com (actual website for public access)
http://admin.example.com (administration interface for the webmaster)

In order to achieve this, we need to set up both eZ Publish and the web server so that they respond correctly to the different requests.

eZ Publish configuration: siteaccess settings

eZ Publish needs to be configured to use the host access method. This can be done from within the web based setup wizard or by manually editing the global override for the site.ini configuration file: "<eZ Publish root>/ezpublish_legacy/settings/override/site.ini.append.php". A typical legacy configuration would look something like this:

...
[SiteAccessSettings]
AvailableSiteAccessList[]
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=example
AvailableSiteAccessList[]=example_admin
MatchOrder=host
 
HostMatchMapItems[]=www.example.com;example
HostMatchMapItems[]=admin.example.com;example_admin
...

This configuration tells eZ Publish that it should use the "example" siteaccess if a request starts with "www.example.com" and "example_admin" if the request starts with "admin.example.com". For more information about site management in eZ Publish, please refer to the "Site management" part of the "Concepts and basics" chapter.

The legacy configuration above will only work if the same is also configured in Symfony, by adding our available siteaccesses and mapping our hosts to the desired siteaccess in ezpublish/config/ezpublish.yml. This approach is recommended!

A Symfony based eZ Publish 5 configuration would look something like this:

ezpublish.yml

Apache configuration: virtual host settings

Assuming that...

eZ Publish is located in "/var/www/example"
the server's IP address is 128.39.140.28
we wish to access eZ Publish using "www.example.com" and "admin.example.com"

...the following virtual host configuration needs to be added at the end of "http.conf":

NameVirtualHost 128.39.140.28
 
<VirtualHost 128.39.140.28>
    <Directory /var/www/example/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
 
    <IfModule mod_php5.c>
        php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
        php_admin_value register_globals    0
        php_value magic_quotes_gpc  0
        php_value magic_quotes_runtime  0
        php_value allow_call_time_pass_reference 0
    </IfModule>
 
    DirectoryIndex index.php
 
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
 
        # CVE-2012-6432
        RewriteRule ^/_internal - [R=403,L]
 
        # Uncomment in FastCGI mode, to get basic auth working.
        #RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
        # v1 rest API is on Legacy
        RewriteRule ^/api/[^/]+/v1/ /index_rest.php [L]
 
        # If using cluster, uncomment the following two lines:
        #RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?storage/images(-versioned)?/.* /index_cluster.php [L]
        #RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?cache/(texttoimage|public)/.* /index_cluster.php [L]
 
        RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?storage/images(-versioned)?/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?cache/(texttoimage|public)/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript|fonts)/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/share/icons/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|flash|images|lib|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/var/storage/packages/.* - [L]
 
        # Makes it possible to place your favicon at the root of your
        # eZ Publish instance. It will then be served directly.
        RewriteRule ^/favicon\.ico - [L]
        # Uncomment the line below if you want you favicon be served
        # from the standard design. You can customize the path to
        # favicon.ico by changing /design/standard/images/favicon\.ico
        #RewriteRule ^/favicon\.ico /design/standard/images/favicon.ico [L]
        RewriteRule ^/design/standard/images/favicon\.ico - [L]
 
        # Give direct access to robots.txt for use by crawlers (Google,
        # Bing, Spammers..)
        RewriteRule ^/robots\.txt - [L]
 
        # Platform for Privacy Preferences Project ( P3P ) related files
        # for Internet Explorer
        # More info here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3p
        RewriteRule ^/w3c/p3p\.xml - [L]
 
        # Uncomment the following lines when using popup style debug in legacy
        #RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?cache/debug\.html.* - [L]
 
        # Following rule is needed to correctly display assets from eZ Publish5 / Symfony bundles
        RewriteRule ^/bundles/ - [L]
        # Additional Assetic rules for eZ Publish 5.1 / 2013.4 and higher:
        RewriteRule ^/css/.*\.css - [L]
        RewriteRule ^/js/.*\.js - [L]
 
        # For dev/debug environment, you might want to use the 'development' front controller.
        # Uncomment the 'RewriteRule' line below to use it.
        # The following example 'RewriteCond' lines can be used in combination to conditionally use it.
        #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} = dev.example.com [OR]
        #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} = dev.admin.example.com
        #RewriteRule .* /index_dev.php [L]

        # Redirect all requests to the 'production' front controller
        RewriteRule .* /index.php
    </IfModule>
 
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example/web
    ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAlias admin.example.com
</VirtualHost>

Note that it isn't necessary to create a separate virtual host block for "admin.example.com", it can be added to the existing block using the "ServerAlias" directive which can take several values separated by a space.