Question

Here’s my setup:

config.php

 'urlManager'=>array(
          'urlFormat'=>'path',
          'rules'=>array(
           '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
           '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
           '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>'
          ),
          'showScriptName'=>false,
 ),

.htaccess:

Options +FollowSymlinks
#+FollowSymLinks must be enabled for any rules to work, this is a security
#requirement of the rewrite engine. Normally it's enabled in the root and we
#shouldn't have to add it, but it doesn't hurt to do so.

RewriteEngine on
#Apache scans all incoming URL requests, checks for matches in our
#.htaccess file 
#and rewrites those matching URLs to whatever we specify.

#allow blank referrers.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?site.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?site.dev [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?dev.site.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d


# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

On layout menus I have this:

$this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu', 
    array('items'=>
        array(
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','A'),
                'url'=>array('/site/index')
            ),
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','Q'),
                'url'=>array('rooms/index')
            ),
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','G'),
                'url'=>array('gastronomy/index')
            ),
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','A'),
                'url'=>array('activity/index')
            ),
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','S'),
                'url'=>array('services/index')
            ),
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','C'),
                'url'=>array('contacts/index')
            ),
            array(
                'label'=>Yii::t('site','R'),
                'url'=>array('booking/index')
            )
        )
    )
);

I explicit call index here, because it seems that, calling it explicitly is required.

With this setup, each time I click on those links I get, for example:

http://site.dev/rooms/index

While I wish to get:

http://site.dev/rooms/

W/out the index name.

What am I missing here ?

Answer 1

There is difference between index entry file and default action. You’re messing those things.
If you make 'showScriptName'=>true you will see, that your links will be changed to something like /index.php/rooms/index where index.php is the index entry file.

As you see with option 'showScriptName'=>false you don’t have that index.php in your links, that means that you successfully removed entry script from links.

Now your room/index is controller/action part of URL route. room is controller and index is action.
To see http://site.dev/rooms/ instead of http://site.dev/rooms/index you have to edit your URL routes like that:

'urlManager'=>array(
    'urlFormat'=>'path',
    'rules'=>array(
        '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
        '<controller:\w+>'=>'<controller>/index',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>'
    ),
    'showScriptName'=>false,
),

Notice the line '<controller:\w+>'=>'<controller>/index' i added. That makes default action index to create controller route instead of controller/index.