Virtual Host for DokuWiki

As I mentioned before, we’ve set up an Ubuntu server with Apache, MySQL, and PHP, to run, amongst other things, a wiki (in our case DokuWiki). For some reason the main page was working fine, but any other pages were showing up as var_www_vhosts_wiki.medeco.com_whatever.

After some frustrating searches around the Web, I finally figured out what I did wrong. Here are the steps I took:

1. Set up Virtual Hosts in Apache:
2. Create the directory for your virtual domain under the vhosts directory
3. Create a file in /etc/apache2/sites-available with the same name as your virtual domain, containing the following:
   <VirtualHost wiki.medeco.com>
ServerName wiki.medeco.com
ServerAlias wiki
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/wiki.medeco.com/web
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/wiki-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/wiki-access.log common
RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/wiki-rewrite.log
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/wiki.medeco.com/web>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^_media/(.*) lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^_detail/(.*) lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^$ doku.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) doku.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
4. Create a symbolic link in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, pointing to your virtual domain config file in sites-available:
   
   ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/wiki.medeco.com /etc/apache2/sites-enables/001-wiki.medeco.com
5. Touch your local DokuWiki config file:
   
   sudo touch /var/www/vhosts/wiki.medeco.com/web/conf/local.php
6. Restart Apache by entering
   
   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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