I am trying to set ssl on local host i have follwed the http://madurad.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/redirect-http-to-https-with-wamp-server/ and many others but unable to get success. i stuck in the syntax of httpd-ssl.conf. my apache server get down when i set the
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
i have tried many others like
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
what is issue not able to get....
How to Configure WAMPServer to use HTTPS SSL
This is not a trivial process. This tutorial will, hopefully, get SSL working for you.
However getting it configured correctly once it is working is TOTALLY DOWN TO YOU.
Additional reading for all who travel this road
Ok,
I have based this tutorial on the creation of a site called www.wamphelpers.dev So whereever you see that name change it to the site name you are trying to secure.
I started by creating a unsecured site, in \wamp\www\wamphelpers
added a Virtual Host for that site, in \wamp\bin\apache\apache{version}\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/wamphelpers"
ServerName wamphelpers.dev
ServerAlias www.wamphelpers.dev
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/wamphelpers">
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Added its domainname to the C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Some virus checkers block access to the HOSTS file so you may need to disable your virus checker, or configure it not to block the hosts file temporarily.
127.0.0.1 wamphelpers.dev www.wamphelpers.dev
::1 wamphelpers.dev www.wamphelpers.dev
Now restart the dnscache as follows from a command windows launched using 'Run as Administrator'
ipconfig /flushdns
Then created a simple script in \wamp\www\wamphelpers\index.php
<?php
echo 'Hello, this is the WAMPHELPERS.DEV site homepage';
?>
Now to activate the new Virtual Hosts you have defined, edit \wamp\bin\apache\apache{version}\conf\httpd.conf and find this line
# Virtual hosts
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
and remove the # comment character like so
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Save the file.
Now restart Apache and make sure that your simple unsecured Virtually Hosted site is working before continuing.
The openssl toolkit.
The openssl.exe, ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll come with, and are located in, the C:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\bin folder
This should be all you need to create your self signed certificate !!
HOWEVER: These did not work for me on any of the versions of Apache that I had installed.
I always got this error message.
Where the ordinal number changed depending on the apache version folder I was in.
If you get this error dont worry this is what you need to do.
install the latest version of the OPENSSL TOOLKIT
This can be obtained from here
NOTE: Dont use the V1.1 version yet, the PHP team have not yet compiled PHP with these new linkages, so stick to the V1.0.? versions until they do.
Pick the Latest version of 'Win32 OpenSSLv xxx Light' or 'Win64 OpenSSLv xxx Light' to match your installed version of WAMPServer, as this is all you need.
This will download an .exe file which you can run to install this toolkit.
It will ask the following question, I suggest you answer it like this so you dont end up installing something into C:\windows\system32.
Afterall this is a toolkit and it changes reasonably often. Best to keep these things seperate and not make them system global.
Once that is installed ( to whichever folder you specified in the install )you should be ready to start the process of generating keys and certificates!
Generate keys and Certificates.
STEP 1: Generate an RSA Private Key
First we need to create ourselves a certificate.
The normal (paid for) process is to create your certificate and then pass it to a signing authority.
This is why it costs money, as they have to do, due dilligence, to check that you are who you say you are and that site that you will use the certificate on is real and legitimate.
The openssl toolkit is used to generate an RSA Private Key and CSR (Certificate Signing Request) to be used for our Certificate.
The first step is to create your RSA Private Key.
This key is a 1024 bit RSA key which is encrypted using Triple-DES and stored in a PEM format so that it is readable as ASCII text.
Open up a Command window (Dos box) using [b]Run as Administrator[/b]
Change Directory to where you installed the OpenSSL Toolkit above.
In my case this is
CD c:\apps\OpenSSL-Win32\bin
Make a folder for the output to be put in ( to keep the bin folder tidy ) I used website
md website
Now enter this command:
openssl genrsa -out website\server.key 2048
This should have created a file in the website folder called server.key, without a pass phrase key, check it exists.
Step 2: Generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
During the generation of the CSR, you will be prompted for several pieces of information.
These are the X.509 attributes of the certificate.
One of the prompts will be for "Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:".
It is important that this field be filled in with the fully qualified domain name of the server to be protected by SSL.
So if the website to be protected will be https://www.wamphelpers.dev, then enter www.wampheplers.dev at this prompt. I used wamphelper.dev as my ServerName is ServerName wamphelpers.dev
Do not enter anything to the question: A challenge password []:] Just press Enter.
If you do enter a passphrase here when you come to start Apache with SSL configured Apache will not start and will give this error message :-
[error] Init: SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin is not supported on Win32
Basically if you do enter a passphrase Apache is supposed to challenge you for that passphrase each time it starts.
This is obviously not going to make your life any easier but primarily on windows it does not actually work and will
cause Apache to crash when it attempts to ask for the passphrase, with the above error.
The command to generate the CSR is as follows:
openssl req -new -key website\server.key -out website\server.csr
Example question and answers:
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:GB
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]: Hampshire
Locality Name (eg, city) []: Portsmouth
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]: Wamp Helpers Ltd
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: Information Technology
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []: wamphelpers.dev
Email Address []: me#wamphelpers.dev
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []: ( leave blank just hit the enter key )
An optional company name []: ( leave blank just hit the enter key )
Step 3: Generating a Self-Signed Certificate
At this point you will need to generate a self-signed certificate because
you either don't plan on having your certificate signed by a CA, or you wish to test
your new SSL implementation while the CA is signing your certificate.
PRE - WARNING
This certificate will generate an error in the client browser to the effect that
the signing certificate authority is unknown and not trusted.
This is unavoidable as we are signing the certificate ourselves, but of course the web of trust does not know who we are.
See example later in this document showing how to tell your browser that you actually trust this certificate
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in website\server.csr -signkey website\server.key -out website\server.crt
Example output:
Loading 'screen' into random state - done
Signature ok
subject=/C=GB/ST=Hampshire/L=Portsmouth/O=WampHelpers Ltd/OU=Information Technology/CN=www.wamphelpers.dev/emailAddress=riggsfolly#wamphelpers.dev
Getting Private key
Step 4: Installing the Private Key and Certificate
Create these 2 directories under the version of Apache you are using.
md c:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\ssl.key
md c:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\ssl.crt
And copy the file we have just generated into them like so:
copy website\server.crt c:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\ssl.crt
copy website\server.key c:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\ssl.key
Step 5: Configure Apache to activate SSL
Edit httpd.conf, Check that this line is uncommented
LoadModule authn_socache_module modules/mod_authn_socache.so
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
Remove the comment '#' from this line also
Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
Then move that line after this block .... like so
<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>
# Secure (SSL/TLS) connections
Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
Step 6: Configure PHP to activate SSL
Edit your php.ini ( use the wampmanager menus so you edit the correct one )
Remove the comment ';' from this line
extension=php_openssl.dll
Step 7: Configure your secure sites Virtual Host
Yup for all you Virtual Host nay sayers, now you cannot avoid the process.
Edit \wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf
This file is released by Apache and contains some default file location.
We can leave most of this file as it is, but we need to configure the virtual host in here to match our actual sites location and a few other things so:
find these lines
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache2/htdocs"
ServerName www.example.com:443
ServerAdmin admin#example.com
ErrorLog "c:/Apache2/logs/error.log"
TransferLog "c:/Apache2/logs/access.log"
and change them to
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/wamphelpers"
ServerName wamphelpers.dev:443
ErrorLog "c:/wamp/logs/ssl_error.log"
TransferLog "c:/wamp/logs/ssl_access.log"
Find
SSLCertificateFile "c:/Apache2/conf/server.crt"
and change to
SSLCertificateFile "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apachex.y.x/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt"
Find
SSLCertificateKeyFile "c:/Apache2/conf/server.key"
and change to
SSLCertificateKeyFile "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apachex.y.x/conf/ssl.key/server.key"
Find
<Directory "c:/Apache2/cgi-bin">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
and change to
Apache 2.2 Syntax
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/wamphelpers">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
</Directory>
Apache 2.4 Syntax
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/wamphelpers">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
Find
SSLSessionCache "shmcb:c:/Apache2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
and change it to
SSLSessionCache "shmcb:c:/wamp/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
Find
CustomLog "c:/Apache24/logs/ssl_request.log" \
"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
and change to
CustomLog "c:/wamp/logs/ssl_request.log" \
"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
Basically look through the conf file and any command that is not commented out, but has a reference to a file or folder
should be changed to reference the WAMPServer folder structure and not 'C:/Apache2....'
Now make sure all these files we have changed are saved, and restart Apache using the wampmanager menus.
First test that the unprotected site is still working.
Then try using your new protected site by adding the 'https://' to the front of the domain name
i.e. https://www.wamphelpers.dev without the single quotes of course.
If Apache does not restart you have probably spelt something wrong. Test the configs like so :-
Open a command window
cd \wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\bin
httpd -t
This will parse all the config files and should give you a file name and a line number where an error has been found.
Fix it and try again.
First access to your site will generate a message page something like this.
This is using FireFox, others will be slightly different, but the concept it the same.
This is because your certificate is not signed by a trusted authority, DONT PANIC, this is supposed to happen.
Click on, 'I Understand the risk' and that will show you a button saying 'Add Exception'
Press the Add Exception button, after checking that the certificates site details are in fact yours,
and you will not see this message again unless you clear the exception list.
BIG NOTE
As of Apache v2.2.12 and OpenSSL v0.9.8j it is now possible to secure more than one site per Apache instance.
This tutorial does not cover that process.
See here for more details:
Here
and Here
and Here
And like I said at the top, now you need to do some reseach on all the options available in the SSL config and make thing work as you want rather than using the default.
It is necessary activate the module LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so in the file httpd.conf in wampserver 2.5. If not apache throws the next message:
AH00526: Syntax error on line 75 of C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.9/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf:
SSLSessionCache: 'shmcb' session cache not supported (known names: ). Maybe you need to load the appropriate socache module (mod_socache_shmcb?).
If you have the error something like this:
Cannot load modules/mod_ssl.so into server: The specified module could
not be found.
You may want to try to searching libeay32.dll in your wamp folder, you probably find it in {wamp folder}/bin/php/php{version 7}/
Copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll and paste them into {wamp folder}/bin/apache/apache{version 2.x}/bin/ AND {wamp folder}/bin/php/php{verion 5.x}. MAKE SURE you backup anything you are placing.
run httpd -t and test the syntax
NOTE: I believe it is due to the mistake in apache openssl part for wamp 3.0.6. Fortunately in php7 folder those dlls are compatible for the apache and php5.
#RiggsFolly:
some small errors/typos/additions in your tutorial. Below is used in combination with WAMPServer 2.5 64bits (Apache 2.4.9 and PHP 5.5.12) on Windows 7 SP1 64bits:
-httpd-vhosts.conf is located in extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
-when you try to edit your hosts file be sure to disable any virusscanner. Some of them block access to hosts file.
-be sure to open your texteditor as administrator when editing your hosts file or else you get an error trying to save.
-don't forget to remove # at the beginning of the host line if any
-if you use WAMPServer 64bit be sure to download the 64bit version of OpenSSL
-the step openssl genrsa -out website\server.key 2048
creates a server.key file and not a privkey.pem!
-file \wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\httpd-ssl.conf is located at \wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf (maybe this depends on the WAMPServer version)
-I had to use different ports for http (80->8080) and https(443->444) as these ports where used by I think Skype. When you use different ports be sure to use these everywhere you see 80 or 443 in this tutorial
-I also had to enable socache_shmcb_module. The "httpd -t" also mentioned this.
#RiggsFolly: Self-signed certificate with key could be easily generated for example here... http://www.selfsignedcertificate.com/, so I could start the tutorial from step 4 (I also had standard :80 virtual server running).
Anyways some mentioned things were already enabled in default WAMP installation (I guess it changes from version to version), but the rest helped me a lot. And actually one thing was missing... I also had to uncomment the following line in "httpd.conf"
LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
If you have the error :
Cannot load modules/mod_ssl.so into server: The operating system
cannot run %1
Then you have to :
Install Win32 OpenSSL here http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
Copy / paste libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll into your wamp php bin folder (C:\wamp64\bin\php\php5.6.19)
Restart apache
Note: Tested on Wamp server 3
Before all:
1).Shutdown WAMP and proceed to C:\wamp\scripts\config.inc.php move from array libeay32.dll,ssleay32.dll, lines 133,139
2).Install OpenSSL from official site,pay attention on version of the your OS x64 or not.
Command prompt:
3).cd C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\bin
4). openssl req -new > localhost.csr
5). openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out localhost.key
6). openssl x509 -in localhost.csr -out localhost.crt -req -signkey localhost.key -days 365 -sha256 -extfile v3.ext
Update: from Chrome 58 we will need to provide Subject Alternative Name.
This name we can obtain from extension file v3.ext:
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer
basicConstraints=CA:FALSE
keyUsage = digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment
subjectAltName = #alt_names
[alt_names]
DNS.1 = 127.0.0.1
DNS.2 = localhost
Very important in Common Name to insert 'localhost'
7).Grab localhost.key and localhost.crt and put them to C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\conf\key (sure,before create appropriate directory)
Configuration:
8).enable in C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\bin\php.ini and
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.6.25\php.ini extension=php_openssl.dll
9).proceed to C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\conf\httpd.conf and uncomment:
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so,
Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf,
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf,
LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
10). proceed to C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.23\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf
and make changes :
SSLSessionCache "shmcb:c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.23/logs/ssl_scache(512000)" ,
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300,
VirtualHost _default_:443,
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/",
ServerName localhost:443,
ErrorLog "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.23/logs/ssl_error.log"
, (create file if not exists)
TransferLog "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.23/logs/access.log",
SSLCertificateFile "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.23/conf/key/localhost.crt",
SSLCertificateKeyFile "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.23/conf/key/localhost.key",
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
,
CustomLog "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.23/logs/ssl_request.log"
Certificate handling:
11).press Win+R and insert 'certmgr.msc',import servercert.crt into 'Trusted Root Certificated Authorities'
12). Check your server in command prompt 'httpd -t' should be 'Syntax OK'
13). Launch Wamp and proceed to link https://localhost
I am hope this will help
Note: please read this article about Mozilla behavior :
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/09/23/phasing-out-certificates-with-sha-1-based-signature-algorithms/
I am new to Drupal &, I went through drupal guides for enabling clean urls, but at some point getting stuck. How to enable clean URLs in my Drupal 7 site?
First thing first, try enabling "rewrite" module for apache,
sudo a2enmod rewrite
After that You need to replace the occurrence of AllowOverride none to AllowOverride all in your site-available file
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
And finally you need to enable clean-url form your drupal site.
Home » Administration » Configuration » Search and metadata
OR navigate to
http://[your-site]/admin/config/search/clean-urls
I just switch to win 8 from win 7. On win7 everything is OK with wampserver, but
When i try to access my wampserver via url localhost on win8, i got this error
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
but via url 127.0.0.1 is OK.
I try fix that error by change in phpmyadmin.conf into
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.9/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
Could anyone help me fix this error? Thanks!
Modify the apache HTTPD.CONF file. Change "Listen 80" to "Listen 0.0.0.0:80
http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,93143
Change httpd.conf also and put Allow from all as given below.
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
If you have an Anti-virus like AVIRA or AVG it certenly blocked changes to localhost by adding the "::1" entry in the HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS
All you have to do is to remove this line (::1) or just comment it by adding "#" sign in front of it in the hosts file.
You must install Visual Studio C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package x86 or x64
This is a must when you install WampServer on a Windows 8 Machine.
Thing is, some software are built on MS Visual Studio, thus require VS C++ reditributable Packages to run.
VC10 SP1 vcredist_x86.exe 32 bits : microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328
VC10 SP1 vcredist_x64.exe 64 bits : microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13523
If above downloads don't work, try:
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
This for the applications built on latest Visual Studio 2012.
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
This is my .conf file...
I had the same issue and I tried all of the above with no results.
Then, I re-install the WampServer (deleting the wamp folder manually), and this worked, but finally I caught what was wrong in my case...
I made a change on the http.conf file, I un-commented this>
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
And then I opened the un-commented file to add my virtual host, but forgot to add one for the local host...
So, just by adding this in the httpd-vhosts.conf file>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\wamp\www"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
All went back to normal...
i solved the problem by disabling the firewall for port 80.
Go to Search on right side of windows.
search "firewall".
open the "firewall with advanced".
go to inbound rules.
click on "new rule".
select the "Port" option.
click "next"
select "TCP" option.
select "Specific local ports:".
type "80" in next text box
click next.
select the "Allow the connection".
click "next".
click "next".
give the name "Port 80 Allow Rule".
click "next".
Note: this is not a secure way. delete this newly created rule when you complete your work.
Here is an answer that worked for me:
in httpd.conf file:
I changed this:
<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>
to
<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all granted
</Directory>
This may not be a good solution, but to simply run standalone projects on localhost without sql or php is fine.
All my services of WAMP server are running, but when I opened my http://localhost/ it gives me this error
"HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden
The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory."
You are getting this error because listing directory contents is disabled. Something like this can be found in the apache config file httpd.conf:
Options -Indexes
The reason you're seeing this is probably because of one of two reasons:
You haven't got an index page (index.php or index.html usually)
You have got an index page but your settings are incorrect
Check your apache config for something like this:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Your directory index should list the name(s) of the file(s) that you want to use as the index page. Cross reference the two and you should be able to get it working.
Finally, make sure you always run httpd -t to test your apache configuration after making changes, prior to restarting it.
Change the content of c:\wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf file to the following.
<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
And Restart your Apache server after making these changes.
The problem:
I have created a Rails project skeleton using rails new TestApp in the /var/www/ directory of my server. The Rails default index.html displays and works properly (i.e., you see the rails logo and when you click on "About your application's environment" you get a correct listing of the environment specifications used on the server) when I access the site from the same network on which the server is running. However, if I access the site from a machine on a different network than the server's, the page displays but I do not get the rails logo image, and clicking on "About your application's environment" results in the following error display on the page:
Not Found
The requested URL /TestApp/rails/info/properties was not found on this server
And that URL shouldn't be found, because it doesn't exist. However, TestApp/public/rails/info/properties does exist.
Configuration:
The site resides in /var/www/TestApp and I access it from a Sub-URI. I have created a symbolic link in /var/www/ called rails as follows: rails -> /var/www/TestApp/public, such that the project can be accessed from www.mydomain.com/rails. My Apache configuration is the following, note that I've omitted,changed, or shortened some parts within the <VirtualHost> tag for brevity:
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ex$
PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.12
PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
.
.
.
#Rails Configuration
RailsBaseURI /rails
RailsEnv development
PassengerUserSwitching off
PassengerDefaultUser www-data
<Directory /TestApp/public>
Options FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
#End Rails Configuration
.
.
.
</VirtualHost>
A couple of things: the appropriate folders are owned by www-data with the appropriate permissions as defined by the Passenger documentation. When setting up the symlink and RailsBaseURI settings I followed the Passenger documentation.
I guess I'm at a loss here since everything seems to be working when accessing the website from the same network on which the server resides. I'm not sure why things aren't working out when accessing the site from a different network, but I feel like paths to certain resources/assets (like the rails logo) aren't resolving properly. Perhaps my symlink is configured inappropriately, or something is wrong with my Apache configuration?
Any help would be appreciated.
The issue of a somewhat broken default Rails page is not totally abnormal, it turns out.
I removed the default Rails page and replaced with another page that included some Rails code and everything worked like a charm.