PHP/Apache setup for localhost

Hi all,

I've been doing ASP.NET C# for 4 years now and that's around the same
# of years I've been away from PHP. But now I'm looking at this PHP
position that looks really interesting to me. However, I have some
unresolved questions setting up my own test enviroment having bunch of
sites relative to http://localhost with each site having it's own
subdirectories and an include file (ex. Site Navigation with images
that's accessible from any subdirectories).

Ex.
http://localhost/site1
http://localhost/site1/products
http://localhost/site1/images
http://loclahost/site1/myinclude/inc.php

http://localhost/site2
http://localhost/site2/products
http://localhost/site2/images
http://loclahost/site2/myinclude/inc.php

Now let's say my inc.php file has bunch of images in it stored in /
site1/images folder. How do I setup php / apache so that I can
reference my images from the inc.php file from any folder/subfolder.
For example if I use /images/image.jpg it would fail since it would
take me to the root of localhost/images which is wrong. How can I have
it so that it goes to site1?? Also, in IIS you can setup virtual
folders. How do you setup virtual sites http://localhost/site1?
http://localhost/site2?


My main concern is only on my local computer. Because on production
server referencing /images would resolve my issue.

Thank you
M.

Re: PHP/Apache setup for localhost

maflatoun@gmail.com wrote:

> Now let's say my inc.php file has bunch of images in it stored in /
> site1/images folder. How do I setup php / apache so that I can
> reference my images from the inc.php file from any folder/subfolder.

You can configure PHP to look for a specific directory when including PHP
files - I'm not sure what you mean with "referencing images" - relative
URLs is a different issue.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.include-path

> For example if I use /images/image.jpg it would fail since it would
> take me to the root of localhost/images which is wrong. How can I have
> it so that it goes to site1??

mod_redirect !

> Also, in IIS you can setup virtual folders. How do you setup virtual sites
> http://localhost/site1? http://localhost/site2?

With apache, you don't set "virtual folders" - you set "virtual hosts". See:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

> My main concern is only on my local computer. Because on production
> server referencing /images would resolve my issue.

Can I ask why?

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