Server Setup

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Here we will configure our web server of choice to serve our application.

• Apache
• Nginx

Apache

To customize our VirtualHost in Apache, replace the blocks in the httpd-vhosts.conf file located in Apache's configuration directory.

For XAMPP, this file is located at <XAMPP Installation Directory>/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/htdocs/animethemes-server/public"
    ServerName animethemes.test
</VirtualHost>

Where we can adjust the ServerName of the latter block to our liking.

Nginx

Install php-fpm and create a server block in our Nginx config with the desired hostname in the server_name directive like the following example:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name animethemes.test;

    root /var/www/animethemes-server/public;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}