Url Manager For Seo Friendly Url - 404 Error Code

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello Community!

I have been trying to setup Url Manager. I want to be able to change the default url structure. I installed the Advanced template and I am currently using it as is…

url.com/index.php?r=messages/index

My target is to be able to use it like this…

url.com/messages/index

So I went thru the documentation at github (url.md)

I added an .htaccess file to my web folder and set frontend/web as my web root (following the instructions in Installation).

I added the Url Manager to the component list in my common/config/main-local.php




return [

    // ...

    'components' => [

        'urlManager' => [

            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,

            'showScriptName' => false,

        ],

    ],

];

I believe that’s all I need for it to work but I am getting a 404 not found error.

Now, something curious. Sometimes, i would show the blank 404 browser’s default page. BUT later on, it actually showed the 404 page provided by the Yii framework.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

2

Sounds like htaccess can be somewhere else. Check that it’s inside webroot.

Also make sure that mod_rewrite is on.

3

Yes. mod_rewrite is on.

I placed the .htaccess in

/frontend/web/.htaccess

i pointed my web root to this folder as well.

Am i doing something wrong here?

4

This

can happen on IE (maybe some other browsers too) if some conditions are met (AFAIR received content length < ??? bytes + 404 status). I wonder if it’s fixed in 2014 :)

Ok, can you check mod_rewrite is working? for example, add some simple rules like


    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/test1

    RewriteRule ^.*$ /test2 [NC,L]

and try to request /test1

5

ORey,

I tried your suggestion. I added the two lines right after RewriteEngine on…

Nada.

Then I deleted the whole content and left only those three lines…

Nada.

I always get blank browser page with Not Found The requested URL /test1 was not found on this server.

Is there another way to check if mod_rewrite in on?

I can’t believe something as simple as that can create all this problem. :(

6

If you’re on mod_php:


<?= in_array('mod_rewrite', apache_get_modules()); ?>

PS. I suppose you’re using apache, right?..

7

[size="4"]Loaded Modules

core mod_so http_core prefork mod_authn_file mod_authn_core mod_authz_host mod_authz_groupfile mod_authz_user mod_authz_core mod_access_compat mod_auth_basic mod_socache_shmcb mod_reqtimeout mod_filter mod_mime mod_log_config mod_env mod_headers mod_setenvif mod_version mod_ssl mod_unixd mod_status mod_autoindex mod_dir mod_alias mod_rewrite mod_php5[/size]

8

Yes, seems like it’s loaded.

Ok, one last thing to check: make sure that AllowOverride is set for webroot in your apache host configuration (etc/apache2/sites-available/… or some other place)

9

Also see this post: http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/51470-pretty-urls-and-htaccess :D

10

[size="6"]ALELUYA!!!!!!!!!!!![/size]

The AllowOverride was set to NONE!!!!!

Thank you so much for your help ORey!

11

Good!

Btw here’s an important thing seb had pointed at in that post:

So the code can work on localhost but give 404 on server because of different apache versions. Probably worth mentioning in FAQ or something.