localhost is showing index of when I added a virtual host in /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Question

I installed apache with brew and changed port 8080 to 80 . when I accessed localhost this shown me a page "it works!" and that page is located in /usr/local/var/www directory with file name index.html but when I added a virtual host in /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "/Users/ranaamir/projects/sample/yii2/backend/web"
  ServerName yii2.example.be
  ServerAlias yii2.example.be
  <directory "/Users/ranaamir/projects/sample/yii2/backend/web">
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride all
      Order Deny,Allow
      Allow from all
      Require all granted
  </directory>
  ErrorLog "/usr/local/var/log/httpd/vjfBackenderror.log"
  CustomLog "/usr/local/var/log/httpd/vjfBackendaccess.log" common
</VirtualHost>

and restart the service with sudo apachectl -k restart command and this host also added in /etc/hosts .

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127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       yii2.example.be

Then I access localhost or yii2.example.be both are showing a page where only one line mentioned Index of / .

if I remove code of block <VirtualHost *:80> from httpd-vhosts.conf then again localhost host showing correct index.html .

why my project not running on the virtual-host url instead of index of / ?

Any help would be so appreciated!!

Answer 1

I have resolved this issue, I made little change in httpd.conf file where we have to mentioned which type of file they will be process first so I just added index.php in the code block of dir_module .

<IfModule dir_module>
  DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

I hope this will save your time and minimize your stress. :)