Apache virtualhost configuration issue

I'm developing a symfony application and in trying to remove index.php from the url, I used the following virtualhost configuration: ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/experiments-1/public" ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined The localtion of the site is confirmed as **/var/www/html/experiments-1/public/index.php**. But when I visit *http://localhost:81/* I just get the default symfony page. I would appreciate some insight into what I'm missing or doing wrong.