Hiding Index.php Results In 403 Error

Yii 1.1 Installation and Setup
1

I’ve been trying to hide index.php, following the guidance of numerous and helpful posts, in the URL but have been unsuccessful. My setup is as follows:

  • VirtualBox Ubuntu Server VM (Host is Windows 7)

  • Using a shared folder on host

  • webapp is a sibling to framework folder

  • mod_rewrite is enabled

Webapp runs fine unless I want to hide the script name. When using the following .htaccess config, I get a 404 error (URL not found):




Options +FollowSymLinks

IndexIgnore */*


RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase webapp

# 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

Some other posts discussed the need to set some of the apache configs in /etc/apache2/default as follows:




<Directory /var/www/>

    Options All

    AllowOverride All

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>

Doing this actually results in a 403 error (forbidden access).

Anyone have any suggestions?

2

could be permissions check if you have appropriate permissions

3

Usermod access was granted, if that is what you are referring to, and write access has been allowed. in the /var/www Directory setting, if I change AllowOverride to All instead of None to allow the .htaccess file to be used, then I get the 403 error.

4

can you post your config/main.php code

5

Sorry for the delay in my reply. Following is my config code (pretty standard):




return array(

	'basePath'=>dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..',

	'name'=>'My Website',


	// preloading 'log' component

	'preload'=>array('log'),


	// autoloading model and component classes

	'import'=>array(

		'application.models.*',

		'application.components.*',

	),


	'modules'=>array(

		// uncomment the following to enable the Gii tool

		'admincontrol',

                'usercontrol',

                'content',

		'gii'=>array(

			'class'=>'system.gii.GiiModule',

			'password'=>'pass',

		 	// If removed, Gii defaults to localhost only. Edit carefully to taste.

			'ipFilters'=>array('127.0.0.1','::1'),

		),

		

	),


	// application components

	'components'=>array(

		'user'=>array(

			// enable cookie-based authentication

			'allowAutoLogin'=>true,

		),

		// uncomment the following to enable URLs in path-format


		'urlManager'=>array(

			'urlFormat'=>'path',

                        'showScriptName'=>false,

                        'caseSensitive'=>false,

			'rules'=>array(

				'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',

				'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

				'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

			),

		),

                /*

		'db'=>array(

			'connectionString' => 'sqlite:'.dirname(__FILE__).'/../data/testdrive.db',

		),

		*/

		// uncomment the following to use a MySQL database


		'db'=>array(

			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db',

			'emulatePrepare' => true,

			'username' => 'root',

			'password' => 'root',

			'charset' => 'utf8',

		),


		'errorHandler'=>array(

			// use 'site/error' action to display errors

            'errorAction'=>'site/error',

        ),

		'log'=>array(

			'class'=>'CLogRouter',

			'routes'=>array(

				array(

					'class'=>'CFileLogRoute',

					'levels'=>'error, warning',

				),

				// uncomment the following to show log messages on web pages

				/*

				array(

					'class'=>'CWebLogRoute',

				),

				*/

			),

		),

	),


	// application-level parameters that can be accessed

	// using Yii::app()->params['paramName']

	'params'=>array(

		// this is used in contact page

		'adminEmail'=>'webmaster@example.com',

	),

);
6

I finally solved this. alirz23 was correct early in the topic when he proposed that it was a permissions issue. I had misunderstood what he was referring to. I fixed the access to the .htaccess file and it is now working.

Thank you!