Basic Apache Webserver Configuration & Virtual Hosts - Full PHP 8 Tutorial

[@gadlabiod2072]

Pure gold. I cannot stress how rare this type information online. Most tutorials just ignore this stuff completely, even though they are crucial for real world development and deployment. The very few videos on such subjects are usually not beginner friendly to say the least.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 💙💙

[@4lmolly]

This guy is an absolute gem! You're very good at this teaching thing. I wish this could be replicated for all things concerning software/hardware. Maybe some things would be less complicated/challenging to understand. Nice work! Keep it up.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 💙💙

[@wno1043]

I learned more from this video than reading pages of questions and "answers" in various forums, and was actually able to solve my problem with Apache failing when Virtual Hosts was activated! Many others apparently have had the same problem, and yet they don't get answers that work from the forums. Great video! Thanks!

[@ProgramWithGio]

That's awesome, happy to hear that. Thank you 🙌

[@janedawg09]

thanks a lot for adding this to the playlist. now I understand how these config files affect my projects. many other tutorials tend to vaguely explain or even skip these configurations. this was brief and very clear explanation 🙌

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad it helped

[@faramarztayyari3734]

After completing the course, please post videos with professional topics such as Apache, server management, security, etc. I'm so glad I found you

[@klerfe85]

This is awesome! This PHP series is getting better and better. Now senior PHP dev's can learn a thing or two :)

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 🙌

[@henrik9173]

Agree with you. I'm loving this

[@oswgaming198]

😂 Yeah for sure bro

[@amagrawal0090]

I cannot thank you enough for doing this. Every video i have seen of php so far was really of surface level, but you are mining gold.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you like it, thank you 💙

[@lil-lilac-lil]

I'm so glad I found your PHP video series! Usually I hate to learn from tutorials but your way of teaching and explaining things are awesome!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you found it helpful, thank you

[@ProgressiveDeveloper]

This video has changed my life and my development career altogether . I was working with routers in nowadays and things got really complicated as I moved on but rewinding my mind back I watched this video and it's now solving everything . I even had a dilemma and propably had a choice of renouncing PHP to Node js but am back now Thank you I really love your contents alot . They changed my career and destination.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Really happy to hear that, thank you 💙 You got this 💪

[@ProgressiveDeveloper]

@@ProgramWithGio That's fine but during the configurations I had a problem that is really devastating a lot . I use windows 11 on my machine and when I open the host file i couldn't find the button to open and run it as an administrator In fact I ran it as a normal user committed some changed but the file couldn't be saved. I modified the security settings in the file property and allowed modification, execution, read, write and save by any user and then opened it again to save the changes I added the new ip address as you illustrated in the video and saved it . Then after that I ran to my browser to run my local server and it couldn't run . My localhost is running properly and yet point to the document root I want but I cann't open my .local site in the browser. Do I need much attention. Please help me with that.

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@ProgressiveDeveloper you can open notepad as administrator and then open the hosts file within that notepad using file -> open

[@ProgressiveDeveloper]

@@ProgramWithGio ok thank's 👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@hectorluis9294]

Definitely, THE best PHP course.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 🙌

[@yinonelbaz5309]

Thank you!!! Excellent episode! A black hole in all PHP tutorials...

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you liked it, thank you 🙌

[@tarirocoffee5026]

I just love how you go deep into every detail, this is priceless!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you very much!

[@JRCSalter]

Damn! I've been learning PHP on and off for years, and I've been breezing through this tutorial and learning so much that was never taught in any other course I've taken. This video in particular is extremely helpful, as I wanted to learn Apache as well. I also had an issue the other day which necessitated a .htaccess file, but I could not access $_GET and $_POST because I was redirecting 404 errors to /, and this messed with my router meaning those variables were discarded. I asked on a forum about it, and they told me to use almost the same code as you put in .htaccess, but didn't explain what it meant. It worked, but thanks to this video, I actually understand why.

[@ProgramWithGio]

That's awesome, happy to hear 💙

[@Armando-px8hi]

I am being serious when I was going to payed courses they showed this conf file once and they do not explain it how you did GIO, you can search on Google or on KZbin, you are the only person that is showing this kind of stuff.God Bless you man for doing this!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Happy to hear that. It was always my goal to explain things in the way that I would want things to be explained to me. I've had a lot of these questions myself when I was starting out & learning.

[@sonoftroy8572]

One thing for sure, a lot of people that teach programming never educate people about apache local server and how to modify it's configurations. If you read apaches documentation it can be very confusing at first glace. And it's not a good source for beginners that don't know anything about apache. it'll take weeks to comb through all the docs... I'm glad you explained why it's needed, instead of just saying add this with out an explication. It takes away from people ability to learn. htaccess files and navigating the control panel is something overlooked. I'm glad you went over it with us thanks. Oh and I see you have apache code snippets! can I get that support for vscode too.

[@ProgramWithGio]

That was my goal, I wanted to create a course and teach it the way I would want to learn a new language myself. A lot of times I have had these questions myself when learning. I dont use anything special for apache, I just use phpstorm IDE, maybe vscode has some plugin for it

[@AbdouAbdou-hu9un]

7:16 don't you ever say that again , you're doing great job explaining even the details and for free... thank you, thank you so much

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 💙💙💙

[@aleksandrkanygin2672]

Excellent tutorial, you cover every topic i wanted to see in php course, simply the best course on the internet

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad to hear that, thank you 🙏

[@miftahmaulana6071]

My main field of study is Pharmacy and because of that I had no information about some of the basics and I didn't know how to find that information. Thank you for creating such a great tutorial that covers the needed basics

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you

[@AhmarIftikharButtIftikharHussa]

Assalam-o-alaikum! is you find any job in tech in 3 years.I'm also have same situation like you. I'm also a Pharmacy tech student & learning how to code.

[@shyankakshar]

best tutorial I ever seen, short, crisp, direct crus is provided

[@ProgramWithGio]

Happy to hear, thank you

[@lotuslando1994]

This was a very good introduction to these config files. It pairs perfectly with what's been covered so far. 👍

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad it was helpful, thank you 💙

[@zb2747]

You covered so many topics I was confused about and simplified it while also giving a thorough overview/explanation. Its like every video I watch I'm experiencing an 'ah ha' moment lol. Thank you and I'll continue to say it as I watch more videos lol - I appreciate you and the effort you put into this fr!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Happy to hear, thank you 🙏

[@anilgajiev8257]

6:52 path to host files on Windows: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

[@ieduardoms]

It was not boring at all, on the contrary, it was VERY interesting and useful, and this tutorial is great. Thank you so much.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad to hear, thank you 🙌

[@christiansosa5484]

smashed that like button pretty hard actually

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 💙

[@rogerzthecoder3625]

Bruh, I've picked up a lot from you. You made things understandable. I'm a Nigerian.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Happy to hear that 🙌, thank you 💙

[@emekatimothyiloba699]

Insightful. Thank you Gio

[@ProgramWithGio]

Happy to hear

[@Vitalii-m6r]

Wow, there is still so much I need to learn. Thanks a lot!

[@ProgramWithGio]

One step at a time

[@Nekoeye]

👍 Another like for not being boring :)

[@godmansarah]

That was exactly the point I liked this particular video also :D

[@ayxan3950]

3:57 guys, if your .htaccess codes arent applied, please pay attention to "AllowOverride All" line here. I changed that line and worked

[@ProgramWithGio]

Was yours not set to All?

[@erickruhcardozo]

God bless you man!

[@ProgramWithGio]

You too Erick, thank you 🙌

[@inzaghiposumaalkahfi9650]

6:18 Can we add more than One/Two Folders Configuration in Htdocs Xampp Folder?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Yes you can

[@inzaghiposumaalkahfi9650]

@@ProgramWithGio How to setting up?

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@inzaghiposumaalkahfi9650 create multiple folders and duplicate vhost configuration. You can Google for examples

[@stepanmutsikivsky8987]

So, on my Lubuntu everything was absolutely different! Or rather same things but in another files & directories. And of course, in the end magic didn't happen🙃 ...until I googled and used command "sudo a2enmod rewrite"😁 Many thanks for the video!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you figured it out, good job

[@longkesh1971]

Thank you so much for making these videos.

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@s4f4y4t9]

Great tutorial sir

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you

[@jaume748]

Learnt so much in this video. ♥ THANKS!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Happy to hear 🙌

[@abdelazizabdelioua890]

Thanks for the explanation. What is your IDE by the way ?

[@ProgramWithGio]

I use phpstorm

[@ionafan2]

Awesome! Do please the NGINX next time! Thank you!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. Already did with docker in second section 🙌

[@lairotuT-Tutorial]

Wow, that was really fun, learned a lot! I would really like to have more information about Web Server configuration. There seems to be that much that a complete short series might be cool. But I guess - as you mention the cool stuff to come - Web Server config would not be your favorite, right? 😥

[@ProgramWithGio]

Heh, configuring web servers is not as much fun :D

[@lairotuT-Tutorial]

@@ProgramWithGio Well then.....🙄 Ready for the REAL fun 🤣🤣🤣

[@jimmybdietaryandvital-sigh8450]

Awesome videos Gio. I thought the server & domain process was so much more complicated. Great stuff. One thing is if you ever redo any of these could you place the video title along the bottom of the screen instead of the top? When in full screen on pause it blocks the top line of your editor where it shows which files you have open and at times your first line of code. Not a deal-breaker by any means as your training is awesome. It would just help us out a bit more. Thanks ...have a great day Jimmy

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 🙌. Can you share a screenshot of what you mean? Nothing is blocked on my end on full screen. If you mean the KZbin overlay that is something KZbin does that I have no control over, if you move your mouse or press key it shows the video controls as well as the title, it should go away on its own if you don't move your mouse while watching. Unless you see something else, screenshot would be great so I can check, thank you 💙

[@jimmybdietaryandvital-sigh8450]

@@ProgramWithGio Hi Gio. I think that you might be right. It is probably just the KZbin overlay and is blocking only for a short time before it goes away. It's just that the top line is usually fuzzy (not always) and sometimes I need to study it. What I do now is let the video run while I'm doing this and just back it up. No big deal. I just wanted to bring it to your attention. BTW I tried to add a screenshot here but it wouldn't work. Anyway have a great day Jimmy

[@peterpardo4138]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your effort in doing this.

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're very welcome

[@BestNoobHello]

This is awesome!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you like it 💙

[@bevedel]

Really helpful. Thank you.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad it was helpful, thank you

[@Armando-px8hi]

Man I just want to know how much did it take you to learn all this stuff?Absolutely Crazy!

[@ProgramWithGio]

It does take a lot of time but key thing is to never stop learning. I am still learning new things all the time.

[@frd85]

brilliant video. thx

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@expresscoding3525]

Sir, I've a request, that please make a full course on apache and htaccess configuration course, and things related to URL rewriting, and pretty URLs using apache, there is not so much resources for it, that's why.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@FranciscoJunior29]

Thais ia awesome, great job.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Glad you liked it, thank you

[@n.a.5261]

Hello Gio, I keep getting stuck around 6:38. I do get that localhost can have ambiguity with multiple websites, but I can't understand how ServerName works. Since ServerName points to the localhost ip address in the hosts file, how would you add another domain for other websites for example, that you have mentioned? What I only got was assign the localhost ip address to the server or domain but don't know how to add more websites other than the localhost.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Hello. You organize different sites in different folders under htdocs, so something like htdocs/site1 htdocs/site2 then in vhosts you duplicate ...

[@Herobotick2025]

thaank you so much , i have a question so i'm a front end developper and i started learning the backend since a little while could you please give me a hint about the whole backend and what we can do like the uses generally .thnks in advance

[@ProgramWithGio]

There are a lot of things you can do with backend development. CRM systems, warehouse management systems, ecommerce, invoicing & payments, & ton more stuff.

[@judeleon8485]

Thanks Gio. Can you please explain the difference between domain name, hostname, and servername

[@ProgramWithGio]

No problem. That is the type of question that can easily be googled. Domain is basically a user friendly name of some IP address, hostname is a name associated with a device (i.e. PC) on network, server name is a server name. Server name in terms of Apache config is basically a reference to virtual host.

[@judeleon8485]

@@ProgramWithGio There are some concepts that one gets confusing, and sometimes, conflicting explanations to. domain name, hostname, and servername are examples of such. Most times, these three have same values, which led to why I asked the question. Thanks Gio for your time

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@judeleon8485 no worries, I understand. Hope my answer helped a little bit 🙌

[@zonegamma8197]

thanks a lot very useful

[@ProgramWithGio]

happy to hear

[@jeffsnow7464]

8:01 "Remember that Allow Override directive in the main configuration file that we talked about a few minutes ago? That's the one." 🤣👍

[@ProgramWithGio]

Yup, that's the one 😁

[@petogeorge]

Thankk you so much !😍

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome 😊

[@ProgressiveDeveloper]

Hello Gio, I was working with routers and views, but I got stack because Iam not capable of loading assets like JavaScript, CSS and images and the template engine Iam using is .php files and I don't want to change to other templating engines like twig and blade that so How can I load and include those assets with these Apache configurations. Because at first, I tried to include them by requiring them normally as files but that can't work with images Can you please help me with that.

[@ProgramWithGio]

They should work fine, in apache vhost you define document root so your assets will just be relative to that path. For example if your js is in public/js/app.js then you can load it in code by /app.js because document root is /public.

[@kenjohnsiosan9707]

Thank you sir.

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome 💙

[@jailsoncarneiro4936]

Fantastic!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@mostafamahfouz1139]

شكرا لك

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@Zubbee]

Hi Gio, I added this update you included below RewriteCond %{LA-U:REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{LA-U:REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d i mean the LA-U (Look ahead-URL) into vhosts file and the pretty URLs refused to load. I had to take out for it to work. In what scenerio are we supposed to use it then or could i have missed something?

[@ProgramWithGio]

That's strange. If you can share screenshot of your config section I can take a look. You can DM me on twitter & send it there.

[@Zubbee]

@@ProgramWithGio ok. will do. thanks so much

[@iqorimane3575]

not boring at all !

[@ProgramWithGio]

👍👍

[@niksatan]

Hey Gio thank you for great series. I am interested on your opinion about Laragon for local dev environment, with heidiSQL. I am planing to buy new computer, what would you personaly prefer - Mac with Sequel pro, or PC with heidiSQL for the long term PHP mysql development? Thank you

[@ProgramWithGio]

Hello. Laragon is good alternative to XAMPP for local development. I have no experience with heidiSQL or Mac so I can't really say much about it. I personally use Linux dual booted on Windows PC so I switch between Windows & Linux when needed. As for the local development I use Docker (which is also covered in this series in 2nd section).

[@niksatan]

@@ProgramWithGio Thank you so much for the answer and for the series! I will try Docker!

[@FahdSalah]

Great Tutorial Gio, but am actually can't understand this config. video. Can i skip it or rest a little bit then try with it again? (Love your vids btw)

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you. Of course you can skip & come back to it later, not a big deal.

[@FahdSalah]

@@ProgramWithGio Thanks a lot

[@anildemir5425]

Hey Gio, do you recommend using apache or nginx? ( for a junior php developer we ought to know nginx web server configuration?)

[@ProgramWithGio]

Either is fine. I personally have moved to nginx & we cover nginx in 2nd section as well with Docker so you'll see how it works.

[@anildemir5425]

@@ProgramWithGio I appreciate your quick answer as well as your extra informative lessons. Thank you for all these hard work.

[@migueldemaria3830]

is there a difference between DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs" and "/xampp/htdocs", which mine is? My xampp is located in C:/.

[@ProgramWithGio]

I think this has to do with windows. If you open windows terminal & type cd / it cds into C:/ directory so that is probably why it works. If you had your XAMPP installation on D:/ for example then using /xampp would not work since it would be trying to locate that on C drive and not D.

[@memack101]

Thank you.

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@aleksandrkanygin2672]

13:32 took me an hour and 1 rewatch of this video to figure out we need a slash there :DD

[@ProgramWithGio]

That's ok 🙂. Sometimes we spend a lot of time on simple bugs

[@sarc143]

i have a qeustion, if you publish your php site to aws or cloudflare or another hosting website do you have to deal with apache configuration on your computer or no?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Not on your computer, you would deal with it within the hosting provider depending on your provider. Some hosting providers handle most of the configuration for you

[@sarc143]

@@ProgramWithGio ty bro

[@udayan285]

Thanks Gio

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@jimmymomoh]

hi Gio I setup up everyting correctly but it still brings me to the default index of/ on local host and list all the directories in htdocs for me to choose from. please help.

[@ProgramWithGio]

Hello, how is your document root configured. Can you send me screenshot of your vhosts? You can DM me on Twitter and I can help troubleshoot it

[@jimmymomoh]

@@ProgramWithGio ok thank you..over to Twitter.

[@Ash-kq7zk]

Hi Gio , i have a question please .. i changed everything as it should be , the documentroot servername and ip in the hosts file , but when i type the PHPfolder.local which is like programmingwithgio.local for u , it direct me to the xamp welcome page instead of reading my php file inside the PHPfolder ..

[@ProgramWithGio]

Hey, most likely misconfiguration. If you send me screenshots of your setup & vhosts file I can help troubleshoot. You can DM me on Twitter

[@Ash-kq7zk]

@@ProgramWithGio Thank you so much , it was jst as you said ! misconfiguration .. m working on linux and so the include virtualhost (in httpd.conf file) was commented and that was the problem

[@wahyunurarizky3860]

thanks Gio

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@omaryahia]

amazing

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you 🙏

[@LubaLorenz]

cool video)

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thanks

[@b4rt1j1]

I followed your steps changing the localhost name part, but google keeps looking for results on web no matter what project name i specify, can someone help me with solution please?

[@ProgramWithGio]

Try adding in the beginning, so localhost

[@b4rt1j1]

@@ProgramWithGio Thanks!

[@Rae-wm3jx]

Are apache and apache2 the same or thats just 2 different server?

[@ProgramWithGio]

two different versions

[@Rae-wm3jx]

@@ProgramWithGio i have a question can you help me? I use apache2 and have htaccess file but my web cant showing my content its just showing a blank white screen

[@ProgramWithGio]

@@Rae-wm3jx DM me on Twitter and I'll help you troubleshoot. Send me screenshots of your setup. First step is to check error log to see if there are any server errors.

[@Rae-wm3jx]

@@ProgramWithGio ok thanks for your help

[@sym2574]

great great great

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thanks 🙏

[@nextebiz6897]

no you are not too boring, you are awesome

[@ProgramWithGio]

💙💙

[@Leomessi1284]

Nice

[@adduxe]

I've been following the whole tutorial. I think I got lost here. 😞

[@ProgramWithGio]

Sorry to hear that, feel free to ask questions. I would also suggest to take a break & come back to it later.

[@khansawidhani9899]

What if youtube also has feature to post multiple likes on single video by a single user like medium 😂 I would like it multiple times 😁😁

[@ProgramWithGio]

💙💙

[@BoosterShot1010]

I now understand why php is look down upon so much. The language is just a mess!

[@ProgramWithGio]

Ok Python

[@freshcodes07]

Really unbelievable! Theoretical Lessons like this usually i don't finish it. but you're Exception! Thanks a lot sir🤍

[@ProgramWithGio]

Thank you, I appreciate it

[@useful_short_videos]

100% useful video!!!! I agree with one of the comments that this video is pure gold. However in the case of my xampp installation on Ubuntu when I repeat all your steps and then try to open 'my-site.local' in the browser, it redirects me to 'my-site.local/dashboard' which is the same as /localhost/dashboard with all that xampp settings. Maybe you know why do I see that?

[@ProgramWithGio]

I would have to see your configuration, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter & share your config and I can help debug it

[@useful_short_videos]

@@ProgramWithGio thank you for the hand :). I fixed it.

[@lairotuT-Tutorial]

Would you give me your idea about my own configuration: RewriteEngine On # Information über Standort/Scope # information about local/scope RewriteBase /Project/ # Wenn wir uns schon im /public Verzeichnis befinden, soll nichts weiter passieren. # no action if we are already in public folder RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L] # Statische Ressourcen, wenn sie bereits existieren. # static ressources if they exist RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/public/$1 -f RewriteRule (.+)$ public/$1 [L] # Alle anderen Anfragen, sollen mit Befüllen der Route auf die Datei index.php im Ordner public umgeleitet werden. # all other requests shall be forwarded to index.php inside public folder RewriteRule (.*) public/index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA] Do I make unneccessary stuff in your opinion or is sth important missing?

[@ProgramWithGio]

dont think you need public in your rewrite rule if your document root is set up properly & uses public in it

[@lairotuT-Tutorial]

@@ProgramWithGio ok, so you prefer the root setup instead of the mod_rewrite.c - My idea was just to have only one entrypoint for my appside adjustments. The other aspects cannot be written directly inside the web server settings to get rid of the whole mod_rewrite, correct?

[@AdminTutorKami]

Thank you for the excellent video!

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome

[@ilya_123__]

thank you!

[@ProgramWithGio]

You're welcome