Question

I’ve been doing some experiments with Yii, to see if it will suit my needs. The first thing I wanted to enable was the user-friendly URLs.

What I want to achieve: to go from this URL webapproot/index.php?r=site/contact to this URL webapproot/contact.

What I’ve done:

• Created an aplication using Yiic (php YiiRoot/framework/yiic.php webapp testdrive)
• Followed the steps 2 and 6 of this link from Yii’s documentation (“User-friendly URLs” and “Hiding index.php”).

What happens is that I keep getting a 404. Any ideas of what I did wrong?

Below are some relevant excerpts to this question:

[project root]/protected/config/main.php

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

[project root]/.htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . index.php

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

(...)
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
(...)
<Directory [path to my web projects folder]>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
</Directory>
(...)

Answer 1

From your latest comment it looks like that you need to set RewriteBase as well. As i mentioned in my first comment to your question, if you have your webserver’s DocumentRoot and your webapp in separate folders, then this problem could arise. Try this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /~username/yourwebappfolder
#rest of your rewrite conditions/rules

To debug htaccess or other server configurations, check your server error_log, for mac lion it is in the file: /var/log/apache2/error_log