Friendly Urls

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I have created an application that uses application directories so I have a frontend and backend. I want to setup friendly urls for both and I do not want to show the scriptfile.

Three example urls before adding friendly urls:




http://domain.com/index.php?r=site/front

http://domain.com/index.php?r=site/products

http://domain.com/backend.php

Once I add in friendly urls, those example urls might be:




http://domain.com/front

http://domain.com/products

http://domain.com/back

How do I configure the system so that it would know that a request for front or products goes to index.php and a request for back goes to backend.php. There could also be scenarios where the frontend and backend have the same friendly url path, ie http://domain.com/about.

I have a config file for each application and am planning on putting the friendly urls in each applications config file so they will be separate but I don’t know how the system will know which scriptfile to use when a friendly url request comes in.

I don’t know if I need to do something in urlManager’s rules or in the .htaccess to accomplish this or if it is even possible?

Thanks,

Jay

2

Haven’t done this before, but my initial thought tells me you should do it in the Apache’s mod_rewrite level.

3

Read this section of the guide.

If you need further assistance, ask again in the forum!

4

Step 1 – in config/main.php


return array(

    .....

    'components'=>array(

        .....

        'urlManager'=>array(

            .....

            'showScriptName'=>false, //ADDED

            //'urlSuffix'=>'.html',//OPTIONAL

Step 2 – in <<root>>/.htaccess


.....

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

.....

After you finish the above steps, you can access your pages as…


http://domain.com/front

http://domain.com/products

http://domain.com/backend.php