How to forward all url to a single url in yii [closed]

Answer 1

Update

The old code sample stopped working since Yii 1.1.16. Thanks to JamesG (see comment) for the new solution. Code sample has been updated.

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As you have already figured out, catchAllRequest is the best way to do this from within yii. It has been made specifically for such cases, as is quite evident from the documentation. Using it could also probably give you a slight performance increase (over urlManager), but i doubt that it'll be noticeable.

On the other hand if you wish to use urlManager, you can try with (also read comments in code sample):

1. Version 1.1.16 and above:

   '<url:(.*)>'=>'maintenance/index'
   

2. Version 1.1.15 and below:

   '<url:(.*)>'=>'maintenance/index'
   
   // '(.*)'=>'maintenance/index' // this used to work in previous versions ...
   // of Yii (below 1.1.16) mainly due to a bug, see notes
   

Note: This will have to be the first rule in your urlManager's rules array configuration.

However as already mentioned by sl4mmer, htaccess or server configuration is the best way to do this, since the server after all catches the request first before sending it to php.

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Note for Bug: Check github issue here.

Answer 2

You have at last two options:

• use .htaccess rewrite rule

• use Yii's urlManager's rule with pattern matching any URL.

First option is recommended, because it is handled by server itself, it does not even touch Yii or PHP and therefore has better performance and is better secured from possible security breaks.