I’m slowly re-writing a site, and I need the old site and the new Yii site to co-exist during the re-write. What I’m trying to do is have the Yii site re-direct to the old site unless I have written a controller for a specific page.
Here is an example:
Right now if someone comes to
/blog12/posts.php, I need yii to redirect to /oldsite/blog12/posts.php
Once I have written the necessary yii code and the post controller exists I need
/blog12/posts.php to redirect to /blog12/posts/ controller
What is the best way of achieving this? urlManger? htaccess? or site/error controller? Is there anything written about slow Yii deployments to existing sites? I can’t seem to find anything on the topic, everyone assumes you are starting from scratch.
Yes, that’s a great idea, but in my case /blog12/ will remain a physical folder until everything is re-written. So I need /blog12/ to be ignored sometimes but not other times, thus the creation of the /oldsite folder that houses the old site…
I misread your post the 1st time. You are right, my solution above is no good.
The best solution I can think of is to add a rule in htaccess, check if the file exists in the old{REQUEST_FILENAME } folder and if it does rewrite to it
Just in case anyone else runs into this issue, here is the mod_rewrite for .htaccess to check if files exist in a certain directory (‘old_site’ in this one) and route to them if they do, if not route to index.php and let yii take over:
Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# if directory doesn't have a trailing slash and doesn't have a . in it add slash and re-direct
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} -d
RewriteRule ^([^.]*[^/])$ $1/ [R]
# if directory exists, re-write to root
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/000__teams3/$0 -d
RewriteRule ^(.*) old_site/$1 [NC,QSA,L]
# if file exists, re-write to root
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/000__teams3/$0 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) old_site/$1 [NC,QSA,L]
# else forward all to index.php and let yii takeover
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php
