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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

How to set up a PHP development server on Ubuntu 22.04

We have optimized the PHP/MariaDB server and, of course, require a read-write server configuration that allows editing files from our standard user account.

Although the PHP development server is useful, it is not entirely identical to the server where our project will be implemented. For example, issues may arise during the installation of a WordPress project. Specifically, issues may occur with HTTP requests, which could result in the server being stuck in an infinite loop.

Destination directory

For instance, we already have a /srv directory, so we will use it for our projects. We choose the public directory because some development frameworks recommend using the public directory for storing project files.

sudo mkdir /srv/webroot/
sudo mkdir /srv/webroot/public/
sudo mkdir /srv/phpmyadmin
sudo chgrp www-data /srv/webroot/public/
sudo chmod g+rwxs /srv/webroot/public/
sudo chgrp www-data /srv/webroot/
sudo chmod g+rwxs /srv/webroot/
sudo chgrp www-data /srv/phpmyadmin/
sudo chmod g+rwxs /srv/phpmyadmin/

Group

"www-data" is the group where Apache server data is stored. Therefore, let's add the user to that group to establish read and write access.

sudo usermod -a -G www-data korisnik

default.conf

Create backup of “000-default.conf” file:

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.backup

...and in original file we add:

# /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        # DocumentRoot /home/korisnik/Servers/webroot/public
        DocumentRoot /srv/webroot/public/       

    <Directory /srv/webroot/public>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        # AllowOverride None
        AllowOverride All 
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8080>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /srv/phpmyadmin     

    <Directory /srv/phpmyadmin>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

Then add 8080 to ‘/etc/apache2/ports.conf’ file:

 Listen 8080 

Reboot

Restart you machine after doing all of this!

Logs

We will use Glogg application to read logs.

 sudo apt-get install glogg 

You can find logs in directory:

 /var/log/apache2/ 

We will need to add user to adm group (only on Debian systems):

Additional: Can't edit files from PHP

Open file:

 sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars 

Add yourself as user:

# export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_USER=your_username

And finally, we restart service:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Labels: linux, php

posted by damirs @ June 18, 2024