Question

I have a ZendFramework project that I would like to run inside a subdirectory.

Currently my document root is at /var/www and the project is at /var/www/project with the various folders (controllers, public, etc.) all within the project directory.

I am trying to make it so that all requests from http://webserver/project/* are being passed to the /var/www/project/public/index.php file. However, trying to use the following code in /var/www/project/.htaccess to pass all requests does not work:

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

There is also an .htaccess file in /var/www/project/public that contains exactly the same code, but when loading the /project URL I am just presented with a directory index of the project contents.

Answer 1

I’d store the project completely separate to the document root, for example /home/user/projects/project.

Then, simply symlink /var/www/project to /home/user/projects/project/public.

Provided you use the BaseUrl view helper for any static asset links (JavaScript, images, CSS, etc), it should work just fine.

Edit: Another suggestion is to separate your public directory from the rest of the application.

For example, say your project is in /home/user/projects/project, move the contents of your public directory to /var/www/project and edit index.php with the following

defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
    || define('APPLICATION_PATH', '/home/user/projects/project/application');