Web page works with "php -S" but not with apache

[Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Consider the following apach2 config file on an Ubuntu 18.04 as below

root@web1:/var/www/html# cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

<Directory "/var/www/html/">

     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

     AllowOverride All

     Order allow,deny

     allow from all

     Require all granted

</Directory>

LogLevel debug 

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

And the files are in /var as below

root@web1:/var/www/html# ls -lah

total 912K

drwxr-xr-x 19 root     root     4.0K مئی   29 15:12 .

drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root     4.0K مئی   27 14:37 ..

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3.1K اوْکتوْ 14  2017 captcha.php

-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data  38K اوْکتوْ 10  2016 CHANGELOG.txt

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 5.0K مئی   28  2017 e500.php

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 3.2K مئی   27 23:38 index.php

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 4.3K مئی   16 19:21 install_info.txt

drwxrwxr-x  2 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_core

drwxrwxr-x  2 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_cron

drwxrwxr-x 10 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_iis

drwxrwxr-x  2 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 23:30 ow_includes

drwxrwxr-x  7 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_install

drwxrwxr-x 15 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_libraries

drwxrwxrwx  2 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   16 19:33 ow_log

drwxrwxrwx  7 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   16 19:33 ow_pluginfiles

drwxrwxr-x 31 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_plugins

drwxrwxr-x  4 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_smarty

drwxrwxr-x  4 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_static

drwxrwxr-x  4 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_system_plugins

drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_themes

drwxrwxr-x  4 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_updates

drwxrwxrwx  4 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   16 19:33 ow_userfiles

drwxrwxr-x  2 www-data www-data 4.0K مئی   27 16:52 ow_utilities

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  358 مئی   16 19:21 ow_version.xml

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 757K مئی   16 19:21 ReadMe.pdf

-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data  718 دسامب 21  2016 robots.txt

drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4.0K مئی   29 15:12 shub

-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data 1.5K مئی   23  2016 UPDATE.txt

The files are mounted as /var according to the fstab:

root@web1:/var/www/html# cat /etc/fstab | grep var

# /var was on /dev/sda5 during installation

UUID=c05e3e60-5916-4817-b8e7-f27a2681e42a /var            ext4    defaults        0       2

Form a remote machine when I enter http://w.x.y.z in firefox, I get the following error

The requested URL /install was not found on this server.

On the other hand, when I run php -S localhost:8080 and enter http://localhost:8080 in firefox (local on the machine and not remote), I get the following output

root@webshub:/var/www/html# php -S localhost:8080

PHP 7.2.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Development Server started at Tue May 29 22:56:54 2018

Listening on http://localhost:8080

Document root is /var/www/html

Press Ctrl-C to quit.

[Tue May 29 23:02:57 2018] 127.0.0.1:41380 [301]: /

[Tue May 29 23:02:57 2018] 127.0.0.1:41382 [301]: /install

[Tue May 29 23:02:57 2018] 127.0.0.1:41384 [200]: /install/rules

[Tue May 29 23:02:57 2018] 127.0.0.1:41386 [200]: /ow_install/view/style.css

[Tue May 29 23:02:57 2018] 127.0.0.1:41388 [200]: /ow_install/view/img/header.png

[Tue May 29 23:02:57 2018] 127.0.0.1:41390 [200]: /ow_install/view/img/logo.png

And that correctly shows the install page. So the question is, why I am not able to access the install page remotely?

 

 

Regards,

Mahmood