I have users who want to run their own Symfony projects under their home directories, but I can't get Symfony to work properly. In my Apache2 config file, I set the userdir as:
UserDir sfproject/web
But the DocumentRoot has to be:
/var/www/sfproject/web
This requirement is there because when we deploy the code to production, we don't want to change the Apache config file. And everything is going to be under that directory.
The problem is that when we go to a user directory: dev.server.com/~asdf
Symfony gives a 404 error: Empty module and/or action after parsing the URL "/index.php" (/).
I don't understand what's wrong. We want them to see their individual projects in their home directories. I looked at some other people setting up Symfony in shared hosting environments, but this is not a shared hosting environment. This is a dedicated server and I have root. Thank you for your help. Here is the relevant parts of my Apache config:
UserDir sfproject/web
<Directory "/usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/sfproject/web"
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory "/var/www/sfproject/web">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /sf /usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf
<Directory "/usr/data/symfony/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I think something like the following would be closer to a solution.
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/sfproject/web"
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory "/var/www/sfproject/web">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
# or is the dir /usr/share/php/data/symfony/data/web/sf ?
Alias /sf /usr/share/php/data/symfony/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
<Directory "/usr/share/php/data/symfony/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
The paths from your excerpt does not look good I guess. Try it out and let us know if it works.