Virtual host in apache on Mint VM doesn't work

Question

I have Apache running on a Mint VM on a Windows 8 host so I can use the VM for Drupal development. I created a VirtualHost entry in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf so I can use www.mysite.dev as a development URL, and I set up the hosts files on the guest host machines. The target platform for deployment is Acquia, in case that's relevant.

The problem I'm having is that, when use a browser in the guest to go to http://www.mysite.dev/ , I get my site, but when I access http://www.mysite.dev/any-non-root-path , I get a 404. Also, when I use a browser on the host to go to http://www.mysite.dev , I instead get the Apache default home page.

In /etc/apache2/apache2.conf on the guest, I have:

<VirtualHost www.mysite.dev:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysite/docroot/
    ServerName www.mysite.dev
</VirtualHost>

In /etc/hosts on the guest, I have:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       vm-name
127.0.0.1       www.my-site.dev

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

In C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts on the host, I have

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.44.44   www.drupal7.dev 
192.168.44.45   www.mysite.dev 

192.168.44.45 is the IP address of the VM on the host-only network I created in VirtualBox. (The 192.168.44.44 is from when I was trying Vagrant, but the shared folder performance was too slow. I figured instead of learning Vagrant just to muck around, I might as well skip straight to the muck!)

I suspect the two issues I'm having are related. So my question is this: how can I resolve these two issues so I get the content I want both while browsing from the host and while browsing from the guest?

Thanks!

edit The specific error I was getting for the path issue was The requested URL [...] was not found on this server.

Answer 1

New Answer : This answer solves both problems.

<VirtualHost 192.168.44.45 127.0.0.1>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site-name
    ServerName www.site-name.dev
    <Directory "/var/www/html/site-name/docroot/">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

So that's the answer, Mr. Spock!

Original Answer So a fresh look Monday morning got me part of the answer. I guess this is really two questions.

The fix to the non-root URL was to add a directory element. See https://www.drupal.org/node/1038 .

<VirtualHost www.site-name.dev:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site-name
    ServerName www.site-name.dev
    <Directory "/var/www/html/site-name/docroot/">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I'm still looking into the other part.