Question

I have a symfony 1.4 application called client with a module device. Here is part of the routing.yml file used in this application:

device_detail:
  url: /device/:device_name
  param: { module: device, action: show }

device_manage:
  url: /manage/:device_name
  param: { module: device, action: manage }

I can load the page http://example.com/client/device/jdoe without a problem. This page contains links generated using the link_to helper. For example,

link_to("Manage this device",  "manage/{$device_name}")

generates the URL http://example.com/client.php/manage/jdoe.

My question is: why does the link_to helper generate a URL containing the string client.php rather than simply client? It seems strange that the page address uses client but thelink_to changes that to client.php.

Answer 1

Check your application’s settings.yml file in apps/<YOURAPP>/config/settings.yml and adjust the no_script_name configuration flag accordingly for the respective environment. Clear your cache afterwards. Normally your dev mode would have no_script_name set to false, and your production would have it set to true.

Example:

prod:
  .settings:
    no_script_name: true

dev:
  .settings:
    no_script_name: false

Edit: As dxb points out, this is also only valid for a single application in your project. If you have multiple apps in the same project you want this to apply to, you’ll need to apply a prefix to routes (eg /admin), use a different domain/subdomain or similar solution.