Yii2:-Pretty URL's are formed, but not working (says 404 “NOT FOUND”)

Question

I have started learning yii2 and I tried to do pretty URL stuff, but failed. What I did:-

in config/web.php (I have edited below):

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Answer 1

Finally I made it working:-

1. created two .htaccess file (one on root and one in web folder of my application):-

root .htaccess:-

<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> 

web folder .htaccess:-

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

2. In config/web.php:-

'urlManager' => [
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        'showScriptName' => false,
        'rules' => [
        // Your rules here
        ],
    ],

3. Changed in (apache2.conf) like below:-

<Directory /var/www/html/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

4. Then run below commands:-

a. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop (to stop apache)

b. sudo killall apache2 (to kill process and to check that no process is running)

c. sudo netstat -l|grep www (to check port 80 is not in use right now)

d. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (restart apache)

And now everything worked fine.

My sincere Thanks to every-one who tried to help me out.

Reference taken:-

https://www.my-yii.com/forum/topic/how-to-set-up-pretty-urls-in-yii2-basic-template

https://askubuntu.com/questions/48362/how-to-enable-mod-rewrite-in-apache

Answer 2

Why dont you just give the rules in your web.php file? like below:

'urlManager' => [
        'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
        // Disable index.php
        'showScriptName' => false,
        // Disable r= routes
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        'rules' => array(
                '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
                '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
                '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
        ),
    ],

The rules i set here is only an example, you can set it the way you want your url to look like.

EDIT: If its not still working, try to set a virtualhost instead with:

<Directory "/var/www/html/yii2/web/">
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost
</Directory>

Answer 3

If non of above answers worked and you are using Apache as your web server on linux,then make sure that rewrite mode is enabled in Apache and if it's not you can enable it with this command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite 

and after that restart Apache web server

sudo systemctl restart apache2

and it should solve the problem.