Question

I have a site done with cakePHP and I access to the sites there like:

http://example.com/site1

Which is converted to:

http://example.com/app/webroot/site1

As I’ve searched and seen here or searching here in stack-overflow this is the normal behaviour but I’d like that the user actually doesn’t see the app/webroot bit.

Is that possible?

Here is my current .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
   RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,NE,L]

# CakePHP part
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Thank you

Answer 1

If you followed all the instructions to install CakePHP, the URL without /app/webroot should work too. If it is not working, re-download all the .htaccess files from the CakePHP repo. There are three files.

To get rid of the /app/webroot, i.e. never see that path on any URL, you may edit or create a VirtualHost with a DocumentRoot pointing to the absolute path of your webroot.

Something like this:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
    DocumentRoot /absolute/path-to/app/webroot
</VirtualHost>

This is not possible if you are on a shared server. If you are on a managed VPS or dedicated server, you need to contact your hosting. If it is unmanaged, you can do it yourself.