[mech7]

How to change the default controller / action in the UrlManager ?

[Y!!]

You can't change that in the urlManager, but what you can do of course is:

...

'components' => array(
  'urlManager' => array(
    'rules' => array(
      '' => 'controller/action',
    ),
  ),
),

...

So when you request the index page, the controller "controller" with action "action" will be triggered.

To really modify the core defaults (site/index), you have to modify CWebApplication::defaultController and CController::defaultAction.

In config:

return array(
   
   'defaultController' => 'test',
   
   ...

and in your controller:

class TestController extends CController
{

  public $defaultAction = 'test';

  public function actionTest()
  {

  }

}

I guess the first solution is what you're looking for?!

[datashaman]

For a more dynamic approach to changing the defaultController (amongst other things), look here.

[annii]

Y!!, on 02 November 2009 - 02:13 AM, said:

You can't change that in the urlManager, but what you can do of course is:

...

'components' => array(
  'urlManager' => array(
    'rules' => array(
      '' => 'controller/action',
    ),
  ),
),

...

I am a yii newbie...but i wanted to say that the above code worked for me after i added another key value pair to the urlManager array

...

'components' => array(
  'urlManager' => array(
    'urlFormat'=>'path',    //<---------This line
    'rules' => array(
      '' => 'controller/action',
    ),
  ),
),

...

[dave101ua]

Hello!
I have similiar question

if I type in url name of controller which not exists (let's say "sdf") then I get error:

Quote

Error 404
Unable to resolve the request "sdf".

can we do that if unexisted controller is requested then defaultcontroller is used ?