[solved]Friendly urls

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I tried to do a couple of rewrite rules, But for some reason even if they do work the system cannot find them.

for example if i have the following path: index.php/site.index that loads the controller indexcontroller.php inside the protected/controllers/site directory. i wrote a rule to have path-to-site/index.html to redirect to index.php/site.$1 for some reason it shows an error "controller index.html does not exists" is that because it has a dot (.) in it? and therefor refers to Yii as a directory separator?

Thanks.

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Try to write in your config something  like this:



'urlManager'=>array(


			'urlFormat'=>'path',


			'showScriptName' => false,


			'urlSuffix' => '.html',


/* your code for rules */


),

That works fine for me.

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Thanks that worked. Tough when i disable the rewrite rules it doesn't seem to work. Do i need to live the htaccess rules in order for those settings above to take affect?

4

The default .htaccess should work fine.

Here is an example, that is written in Definitive guide:



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

But If you wish, you can create your own rewrite rules. As for me, I don't think it is needed.

urlManager rules define Yii behavior. You can look at blog example. I think, it's better to build your application in the same manner.

UPD: And please don’t forget to append to topic title “[solved]” after you finish doing this for others to see. It can be usefull to others :wink:

5

Yes the above did work. i guess it's ok now the way it is.

Thanks for pointing me out do the right direction.

6

You are welcome ;)