Enable clean URL in Yii2

Question

How can I enable clean urls in Yii2. I want to remove index.php and \'?\' from url parameters. Which section needs to be edited in Yii2 for that?

Answer 1

First, create a .htaccess at root folder in your Yii2 project with following content:

Options +Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ frontend/web/$1 [L] 
</IfModule>

# Deny accessing below extensions
<Files ~ "(.json|.lock|.git)">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Deny accessing dot files
RewriteRule (^\.|/\.) - [F]

Create another .htaccess file in your web folders with following content:

frontend/web/ add backend/web/ Don't forget to add .htaccess file to both web folders:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 

RewriteRule . index.php

---

Now It's done. Change your URL configuration in Yii2:

<?php

use \yii\web\Request;
$baseUrl = str_replace('/frontend/web', '', (new Request)->getBaseUrl());


$config = [
    'components' => [
        'request' => [
            // !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
            'cookieValidationKey' => 'aiJXeUjj8XjKYIG1gurMMnccRWHvURMq',
            'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
        ],
         "urlManager" => [
            'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
            'showScriptName' => false,
            "rules" => [
                "home" => "site/index",
                "about-us" => "site/about",
                "contact-us" => "site/contact",
            ]
        ]
    ],
];

return $config;

---

Your URL will change to:

localhost/yii2project/site/about => localhost/yii2project/about-us localhost/yii2project/site/contact => localhost/yii2project/contact-us localhost/yii2project/site/index => localhost/yii2project/home

You can access your admin through

localhost/yii2project/backend/web

Answer 2

For me, the problem was:

1. Missing .htaccess in the web folder just like mentioned above.
2. The AllowOverride directive was set to None, which disabled URL rewrites. I changed it to All and now pretty URLs work nicely.

<Directory "/path/to/the/web/directory/">
  Options Indexes 
  FollowSymLinks MultiViews 
  AllowOverride All 
  Require all granted
</Directory>

Answer 3

What worked for me-
create a .htaccess at root folder of my Yii2 project, and added following-

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ web/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ web/index.php
</IfModule>

Created new .htaccess file web folders with following content:

frontend/web/

and added following-

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php

Then added urlmanager here-

projectFolder/common/config/main.php

For me it was not there, so added this as-

'urlManager' => [
    'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
   /* 'rules' => [
        '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',

    ],*/
],

Make sure this code must be in 'components' => [].

Restart my server and everything works fine.

Answer 4

Step 1: Put .htaccess file in root.

Options –Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ frontend/web/$1 [L] 
</IfModule>

# Deny accessing below extensions
<Files ~ "(.json|.lock|.git)">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Deny accessing dot files
RewriteRule (^\.|/\.) - [F]

Step 2: Put .htaccess file in frontend/web.

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

Step 3: Then changes in frontend/config/main.php. Following code need to be added inside 'components' => [].

'request' => [
 'csrfParam' => '_csrf-frontend',
 'baseUrl' => '/yii-advanced', //http://localhost/yii-advanced
],

'urlManager' => [
  'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
  'showScriptName' => false, // Disable index.php
  'enablePrettyUrl' => true, // Disable r= routes
  'rules' => array(
          'about' => 'site/about',
          'service' => 'site/service',
          'contact' => 'site/contact',
          'signup' => 'site/signup',
          'login' => 'site/login',
  ),
],

Above steps are worked for me.

Answer 5

config/web.php

$params = require __DIR__ . '/params.php';
$db = require __DIR__ . '/db.php';


$config = [
'id' => 'basic',
'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
'bootstrap' => ['log'],
'aliases' => [
'@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
'@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
],
'components' => [
'assetManager' => [
// override bundles to use local project files :
'bundles' => [
'yii\bootstrap4\BootstrapAsset' => [
'sourcePath' => '@app/assets/source/bootstrap/dist',
'css' => [
YII_ENV_DEV ? 'css/bootstrap.css' : 'css/bootstrap.min.css',
],
],
'yii\bootstrap4\BootstrapPluginAsset' => [
'sourcePath' => '@app/assets/source/bootstrap/dist',
'js' => [
YII_ENV_DEV ? 'js/bootstrap.js' : 'js/bootstrap.min.js',
]
],
],
],

'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => 'V_Pj-uMLTPPxv0Be5Bwe3-UCC6EjGRuH',
'baseUrl' => '',
],

'formatter' => [
'dateFormat' => 'dd/MM/yyyy',
'decimalSeparator' => ',',
'thousandSeparator' => '.',
'currencyCode'      => 'BRL',
'locale'        => 'pt-BR',
'defaultTimeZone'   => 'America/Sao_Paulo',
'class'         => 'yii\i18n\Formatter',
],
'datehelper' => [
'class' => 'app\components\DateBRHelper',
],
'formatcurrency' => [
'class' => 'app\components\FormatCurrency',
],
'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => '123456',

],
'cache' => [
'class' => 'yii\caching\FileCache',
],
'user' => [
'identityClass' => 'app\models\User',
'enableAutoLogin' => true,
],
'errorHandler' => [
'errorAction' => 'site/error',
],
'mailer' => [
'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
// send all mails to a file by default. You have to set
// 'useFileTransport' to false and configure a transport
// for the mailer to send real emails.
'useFileTransport' => true,
],
'log' => [
'traceLevel' => YII_DEBUG ? 3 : 0,
'targets' => [
[
'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',
'levels' => ['error', 'warning'],
],
],
],
'db' => $db,

'urlManager' => [
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'enableStrictParsing' => true,
'rules' => [
'' => 'site/index',                                
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/' => '<controller>/<action>',
],
],

],
'params' => $params,
];

if (YII_ENV_DEV) {
// configuration adjustments for 'dev' environment
$config['bootstrap'][] = 'debug';
$config['modules']['debug'] = [
'class' => 'yii\debug\Module',
// uncomment the following to add your IP if you are not connecting from localhost.
//'allowedIPs' => ['127.0.0.1', '::1'],
];

$config['bootstrap'][] = 'gii';
$config['modules']['gii'] = [
'class' => 'yii\gii\Module',
// uncomment the following to add your IP if you are not connecting from localhost.
//'allowedIPs' => ['127.0.0.1', '::1'],
];
}

return $config; 

arquivo .htaccess na pasta raiz

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ web/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ web/index.php
</IfModule>

.htaccess dentro da pasta web/

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 

RewriteRule . index.php