Non-stand alone issues with .htaccess file

[naip1984]

I think putting more information up about the .htaccess file might be useful for people.

It took me a good bit of time to figure out what was going on between apache and the dispatcher.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !dispatch.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule .\* dispatch.php [L,QSA]

[peej]

I agree, what would you suggest?

[rovangju]

There's a lot of variations, things get messy when you consider forcing trailing slashes (/foo vs /foo/) for pragmatism. There should be a disclaimer about these complexities along with a very basic 'get er working' suggestion:

RewriteEngine On

#Un-comment and edit if placed in anything but the DocumentRoot
#RewriteBase /path/in/DocumentRoot

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ""

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatcher.php [L]

[tagadvance]

In regard to forcing trailing slashes, I have developed the habit of ending each @uri with /?, e.g.

/**
 * @uri /customer/:customerId/?
 */

While this may not be the best practice, it was the simplest solution I could come up with. It should also provide more flexibility across varying development environments.

[drkibitz]

Personally, I don't really like forcing slashes in the web server. I would be +1 for this being an optional commented out piece. I also +1 @rovangju your RewriteBase comment.

Also here's a pretty weird variation I had not seen before, https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication/blob/master/public/.htaccess. I'd like to note that I actually tried this in one of my sites running through CGI with tonic, and it didn't work.

[naip1984]

I think my suggestion is coming from my newness to tonic. I hadn't used the php -S stand alone option before. Thats really nice, and got me working with tonic right away. But, later, when I went to figure out what was needed to deploy the simple service I'm testing, I had a hard time trying to get everything working correctly with apache. In digging I found the .htaccess file. By playing around, I figured out, it was what I needed to focus on.