Well, PHP times.
My client wants me to use Yii2 as the framework for his project.
I got it up and running. No problem. I used the advanced template via composer.
Set my web root to /frontend/web, etc.
NOW, i want to use this url format
website.com/messages/ or website.com/messages/tom... etc.
Right now the way is setup shows website.com/index.php?r=messages/index...
I found this documentation...
https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/docs/guide/url.md
But i can't seem to get it straight.
Here are my steps...
I configured my apache server to point to /usr/www/payroll/frontend/web/
I added to my web folder a .htaccess file with this content.
RewriteEngine on
# 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
I also added the component 'urlManager' as in the directions. It seems to catch the request and modify it.
'components'=>[
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => 'false'
],
],
For example if I type website.com you can see it adds /site/index to the url. (without the url component active it simply adds /index.php?site/index)
So, obviously there's a modification perfomed to the url (via UrlManager) but I get 404 error
I am running out of ideas here. I am new to Php, Apache and Yii2. Any help, Greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ok, here is the solution.
In recents version of Apache (from 2.3.9), AllowOverride is set to NONE by default. Previous versions have AllowOverride set to ALL.
Yii2 assumes that AllowOverride will be set to ALL.
If you want to read the whole thread at Yii Forum, here is the link
Thank you for your help and messages!