My Code Igniter app has urls like this:
http://servername/contexttroot/index.php/Sessions/login/
My question is, when the url is parsed how does Apache know that there isn't a folder called index.php? If I were the parser, that's what I would be looking for :)
I know it works and CI's index.php gets called but I don't understand how this works. Maybe dots aren't allowed as part of directory names?
UPDATE See the comments on the accepted question for details, there are lots of details to what I am asking.
CodeIgniter basically performs rewrites of the URL by searching for the index file name "index.php" in your URL. Look in CI's config file for this line:
$config['index_page'] = "index.php";
Try changing that to something else and see if it still works.
Edit: OK, to answer the question Juan posed, the way Apache knows that index.php isn't a directory is because a file and directory can't have the same name in the same directory. If index.php were simply a directory, Apache would go into it and search further. If it is a file, it will run the file.
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I set up a little Apache2 server on a Raspberry PI4. Now I’m looking for a way to hide the real directory path displayed in the URL. I read around that you should deal with a file called .htaccess but, I don’t even know what to actually look for on the internet. How can I display an arbitrary url in the address bar of the browser, Hiding file extension like .php and file path?
You make rewrite rules in an Apache config file, a .htaccess file for example. One way you could achieve this is to create re-write rules in a .htaccess file. Use to below link to test your rewrite rules, then once you have that part working implement on your live apache installation.
https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
I was just asked to work on a terrible site that the client is running off IIS. I can't make changes to the live server so I attempted to install the site on my testing server running Apache.
The site's homepage is up and running but I cannot navigate to any subdirectories. The nav menu has links like /about-us/ -- however, there is no index.php file in the about-us directory. Instead there is a file named about-us.php.
If I was getting paid to fix the site up I would do the work to rename the files and/or links, but for now I just want to get this thing running so I can make my CSS and content edits and be done with it. I assume there is some easier way (using htaccess?) to dynamically tell Apache that, when directed to a subdirectory, look for /foo/foo.php instead of /foo/index.php -- right now all I get is a directory listing or permission denied if I turn indexing off.
I've been Googling around but can't find anything that looks like the same problem -- can one of you rewrite gurus please point me in the right direction?
The best approach for you is to set the appropiate DirectoryIndex for each directory as in:
<Directory /path/to/about-us>
DirectoryIndex about-us.php
</Directory>
You can also define a single "controller" in case there is no index page found, this is done like:
FallBackResource /index.php
It's a little difficult for me to ask the question correctly in title, but mainly here's what I'm trying to figure out.
If I use .htaccess on my website and say I'm trying to create a specific path "redirect" so that anything inside that path uses it's non-redirected path for it's relative path. Sorry for the structure of that sentence.
So for example...
I have my website as-
http://www.example.com/
I want to keep things organized so I create a sub-folder/subdirectory to keep all these folders inside of.
http://www.example.com/projects/
So the folder projects will be the place holder for all future projects and I want to create a folder inside projects for each project, so that I can define a URL for each one like such...
http://www.example.com/SuperFish/
http://www.example.com/AquaFear/
Now the folder for SuperFish and AquaFear would be under http://www.example.com/projects/ but also in their own folder say...
http://www.example.com/projects/01/
http://www.example.com/projects/02/
Now it'd be fine and dandy to keep the links like such, but for memory purposes and to share with other people the links to those projects, I'd like to just create a nice simpler URL with a custom "name". like http://www.example.com/SuperFish/ instead of http://www.example.com/projects/01/.
Now I was able to do this partially with my .htaccess file in the root folder with this code...
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^SuperFish/?$ projects/01/ [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^AquaFear/?$ projects/02/ [NC,L]
The issue with this though is that now I can't use relative paths with my SuperFish or AquaFear made up URL links. Anything such as .css, .js, .etc... Isn't within scope because it's trying to look for those files through the made up URL rather than the real physical one.
So the question is, how would I make it so that I can use my made up URL and also have the webpage load things to the real physical path or somehow fix the relative paths by doing this within the .htaccess file?
The reason I titled this the way it is, is due to subdomains being able to find their files with relative paths even though they're a subdirectory just the same.
Using final $ blocks files inside this two folders from being redirect correctly. You could tried instead :
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^SuperFish/?(.*)$ projects/01/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^AquaFear/?(.*)$ projects/02/$1 [NC,L]
I'm using xampp and tried to put my yii folder and the webapp folder separate from the htdocs directory. I've followed the instructions from here:
http://el.web.id/how-to-add-virtual-directory-alias-on-apache-xampp-165
I was able to run the main page all right, but the other pages just return a not found status. May I know how to fix this? I'm not even sure if the main problem comes from Apache or from Yii. Thanks a lot.
Oh, I get it now. We'd just need to add a rewritebase on the .htaccess file that matches the alias.
RewriteBase /aliasfolder
This is for reference purposes.
Sorry for the newbie question...
When I go to http://www.plans4boats.com/scripts/youtubeplayer/ in Google Chrome, I can see a full listing of the files there. What should I do if I don't want any old hacker to just come in and view/copy my source codes? Does it have something to do with htaccess?
I discovered that putting a blank index.html file in the folder helps for THAT folder, but it still leaves all subfolders vulnerable.
What should I google for more information on how to set up my server to prevent this?
Just set Options -Indexes for that particular directories either in an .htaccess file or a <Directory> or <Location> container.
What you need to do is turn of Directory Listing for your specific server. I don't know what server you're using so I can't walk you through it, but just google your server name and how to disable directory listing.
I created a file called .htaccess and put the following contents:
IndexIgnore /