Apache 2.2

The Apache HTTP Server is the world’s most used web server (according to Wikipedia). It is open source, mature and reliable.

To serve a Sulu website with Apache, you need to adapt your hosts file, create a virtual host configuration file and restart your server.

Host Name Configuration

Add the domain of your site to the hosts file. Depending on your operating system, this file can be found in different places:

• Unix: /etc/hosts
• Windows: %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

On a development machine, we could use the domain sulu.lo (“lo” stands for “local”). Add that domain to the end of the hosts file:

# ...

127.0.0.1  sulu.lo

When you type the URL http://sulu.lo in your browser, the browser will now load the page from your computer.

Note

You may need to restart your browser after changing the hosts file.

But before it works, we need to tell Apache what to do when that URL is loaded.

Virtual Host Configuration

Let’s add the Apache configuration file for the sulu.lo domain.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/sulu.lo/web"
    ServerName sulu.lo
    <Directory "/var/www/sulu.lo/web">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        SetEnv SYMFONY_ENV dev

        <IfModule mod_expires.c>
            ExpiresActive On
            ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType font/woff2 "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType font/eot "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType font/ttf "access plus 1 month"
        </IfModule>

        <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
            SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
            SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
            SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
            SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary

            BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
            BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
            BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Note

It is a good practice to create a virtual host for each of your Sulu projects. They are separated by domain and you’ll got full control on what you expose.

MAMP Pro

In general you should configure your vHost like the Apache 2.2 paragraph above describes it.

If you want to enable the dev-environment (including the debug toolbar) you have to be sure that the vHost environment variable (SetEnv SYMFONY_ENV dev) is set properly and you configured a DEV-domain within your webspace.xml.

File Permissions

Finally, we need to fix the permissions of our project so that the web server is able to read and write them.

This command is different for sulu-standard and sulu-minimal.

sulu-standard

Run the following commands on Linux:

HTTPDUSER=`ps axo user,comm | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
sudo setfacl -R -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX app/cache app/logs uploads uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* app/data
sudo setfacl -dR -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX app/cache app/logs uploads uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* app/data

Or these commands for Mac OSX:

HTTPDUSER=`ps axo user,comm | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
sudo chmod +a "$HTTPDUSER allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs uploads uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* app/data
sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs uploads uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* app/data

Or these commands for Windows (with IIS web server):

$rule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule -ArgumentList @("IUSR","FullControl","ObjectInherit, ContainerInherit","None","Allow")
$folders = "app\cache", "app\logs", "app\data", "uploads", "uploads\*", "web\uploads", "web\uploads\*"
foreach ($f in $folders) { $acl = Get-Acl $f; $acl.SetAccessRule($rule); Set-Acl $f $acl; }

sulu-minimal

Run the following commands on Linux:

HTTPDUSER=`ps axo user,comm | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
sudo setfacl -R -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX var/cache var/logs var/uploads var/uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* var/indexes var/sessions
sudo setfacl -dR -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX var/cache var/logs var/uploads var/uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* var/indexes var/sessions

Or these commands for Mac OSX:

HTTPDUSER=`ps axo user,comm | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
sudo chmod +a "$HTTPDUSER allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" var/cache var/logs var/uploads var/uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* var/indexes var/sessions
sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" var/cache var/logs var/uploads var/uploads/* web/uploads web/uploads/* var/indexes var/sessions

Or these commands for Windows (with IIS web server):

$rule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule -ArgumentList @("IUSR","FullControl","ObjectInherit, ContainerInherit","None","Allow")
$folders = "var\cache", "var\logs", "var\indexes", "var\sessions", "var\uploads", "var\uploads\*", "web\uploads", "web\uploads\*"
foreach ($f in $folders) { $acl = Get-Acl $f; $acl.SetAccessRule($rule); Set-Acl $f $acl; }