在ubuntu上使用灯泡堆栈是否需要虚拟主机配置和启用站点？

Question

In windows with 'Wamp Server' installed, to create a new project for development I just create a new directory in 'www' (eg www/myproject) and access it with http://localhost/myproject .

But recently installed ubuntu,installed lamp stack by following tutorials on internet, and found that things were not that easy.

I had to create a new myproject.conf file for every new project and then enable it then restart apache service.

Any easier/better alternate?

Answer 1

VirtualHosts are only necessary, and will even only work, if you want to be able to access all your different projects using a different (sub)domain. For example:

mycoolproject.conf -> http://mycoolproject.com/
myotherproject.conf -> http://myotherproject.io/

If you are fine being able to access them using http://localhost/mycoolproject/ and http://localhost/myotherproject/ , you do not need seperate .conf files.

Creating seperate .conf files all using http://localhost as their domain, will probably not work.