Removing "/site/" and "page?view="

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hello,

I was able to remove "index.php" from the URL, but I am wondering how I can remove "/site/" from the URL. Is this possible?

Also, for static pages, I would like "/site/page?view=about" to instead be "/about". I this possible?

Thanks!

el chief

2

You have to enable url manager in main.php , folder protected/config





        'urlManager'=>array(

        	'urlFormat'=>'path',

        	'rules'=>array(

        	          'home'=>'site/index',

        		

        	),

        	'showScriptName'=>false		

        ),

and in main document in htacsess type:

Options +FollowSymLinks

IndexIgnore /

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

3

Hello,

Thanks for responding. I tried that and get "Error 404. Unable to resolve the request "about"."

4

Add the following


                'rules'=>array(

                          'home'=>'site/index',

                          '<view>'=>array('site/page'),

                        

                ),

it will gives us

site/page/about

5

This should work for you:


'rules'=>array(

    'about'=>'site/about',

    'contact'=>'site/contact',

    '/'=>'site/index',

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

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

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

),

Note, I also include the contact and index page here.

Also add this to your .htaccess:


RewriteRule ^site/about(.*)$ about$1 [R=301,NC,L]

RewriteRule ^site/contact(.*)$ contact$1 [R=301,NC,L]
6

Just another note, you will need to change the links in your menu to look like this:


array('label'=>'About', 'url'=>array('/about')),

Edit:

I forgot to mention that to do it exactly as I have mentioned, you will need to have an ‘actionAbout()’ function in your SiteController.php

7

no he dont need to rewrite , CApplicationComponent do it for you

8

So… is there a way to rewrite the "static" pages?

9

yes

eg




array('newrule'=>'site/index')

eg




array('login'=>'site/login')

eg




array('site/dontlogin'=>'site/login')
10

Since the view param is required, this is the way to go:


'about' => array('site/page', 'defaultParams' => array('view' => 'about')),
11

Are you sure?. Im traying to get this working but if I introduce /about it works but the nav’s link is /site/page/view/about

Thanks.

12

The suggestions above solve the "/about", but then for others like "/contact", it generates an error 404.

This worked for me:




'urlManager'=>array(

    	'urlFormat'=>'path',

    	'showScriptName'=>false,

    	'rules'=>array(

            	'<view:about>'=>'site/page',

            	'<action:(contact|login|logout|home)>'=>'site/<action>',

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

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

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

    	),

),

In file .htaccess, the basic rewriting is enough:




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

You will then get links like: /index,/about, /contact, /login that work.