Question

I’m developing a CMS using yii framework. There is a frontend and backend. I want the users to be able to access the backend like this: http://www.mysite.com/admin, right now it is working like this: http://www.mysite.com/admin.php.

For the backend I have defined different section with it’s own config, controller and … and the page for accessing the backend in admin.php

here is my directory structure:

...
admin
     --components
     --config
         ---main.php
     --controllers
         ---NewsController.php
         ---ShowCOntroller.php
         ---SiteController.php
     --models
         ---LoginForm.php
         ---News.php
         ---Show.php
         ---User.php
     --runtime
     ...
     --Views
        ---layouts
        ---news
        ---show
        ---site

protected

    -commands
    -data
    -extentions
    -messages
    -migrations
    -models
    -modules
       --image
    -runtime
    -views


themes
uploads
admin.php
index.php
.htaccess  

And here is my .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule admin admin\.php [T=application/x-httpd-php]

 # 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
</IfModule>

Answer 1

You can have a look of how did I solved with the help of @bool.dev Yii: .htaccess and urlManager for separate backend and frontend.

I hope it helps.