Question

Does anyone know exactly what happens when you change your Zend site at, say, foo.com/ to foo.com/subfolder/ ? I notice that routing breaks and either I am not using front_controller.setBaseUrl() properly or it has no effect. I am unable to find any formal documentation at the Zend site about this issue.

Answer 1

The most likely cause of your problem is that you need to set the RewriteBase parameter in your .htaccess file.

Assuming your rewrite rules look something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

And assuming you are moving your site into the subfolder subfolder, add the following line to your re-write rules, just under RewriteEngine on.

RewriteBase /subfolder

Your complete rewrite rules should look like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /subfolder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

PS: The Front Controller/Request Object/Router will 99% of the time correctly determine the baseUrl automagically. Try not explicitly setting it. If the above changes to your rewrite rules do not work, only then attempt to override.

You can, at any time get the baseUrl that was determined be the request with the following:

var_dump(Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getBaseUrl());