Comments on: Zend Framework Quickstart Tutorial: Deploy to a subdirectory instead of web root

By: Alexey

Alexey — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:30:28 +0000

HI John,
Many thanx to you.
Your htaccess configuration worked for me!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:13 +0000

Hi John,

Why not use a vhost as recommended in the documentation?

Simon

By: Captam

Captam — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:41:34 +0000

Thank you John,

Like others – I had the same problem in Zend QuickStart tutorial. Last .htaccess line in Your example didn’t help, but it gave me idea to write it:

RewriteRule ^.*$ /ZendTest/index.php [NC,L]

And it worked, now I’m back on my way.
Many thanks!

P.S. I’d like Zend tutorial would have the same “Comments on this page” idea, as PHP Manual have

By: Psteve

Psteve — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:58:42 +0000

For ZF 1.8, it doesn’t appear as if this is necessary at all. I was having trouble getting rewriting to work right & thought this was the solution, but it was my AllowOverride in apache2.conf in Ubuntu. I just reverted to the .htaccess created by the zf create project command, and it seems to work fine.

By: GJ

GJ — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:20:31 +0000

Been trying to setup in a sub-dir but not by putting the entire project in the sub-directory, just the contents of the public folder i.e. moving the public folder out of the application and into a sub-directory of the web root so that the application code itself is not web accessible. Was able to get the default index page working by modifying the application path to point to the application location, but any other controller would not work cause it was assuming the subdir was the controller. The rewrite rule (last line) was all I needed to change,to get it to work.
Thanks!!!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:24:13 +0000

Thanks John, it seems I should have had my .htaccess in the web root and not in the /subdir and obviously be redirecting with:

RewriteRule ^.*$ /subdir/index.php [NC,L]

Now all of my existing (non framework) content can remain in web root and I can now run Zend framework via the subdir whilst keeping all the framework file above web root. So it is true, the framework is flexible to individual needs.

Many thanks

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:02:12 +0000

Jojo:

1. The browser will call for the subdirectory:
eg: http://example.com/subdir/

2. Take another look at the last line of your .htaccess file. Are you redirecting everything to the index.php in the subdirectory? or sending everything back to the index.php in the root directory?

By: Jojo

Jojo — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:48:41 +0000

I have been trying unsuccessfully to deploy the framework above the web root but run index.php from a subdirectory:

eg. web root = “/var/www/” and “/var/www/subdir/index.php”.

The controllers just don’t run and I get 404s

My .htaccess looks like to original and is in the subdirectory:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [NC,L]

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:45:22 +0000

Holy crap you have no idea how helpful this post was!

I spent a good 5 or 6 hours trying to get my Zend app running on a shared host, and everything I did kept trying to use “{appname}/public/index.php/” as the base url.

Changing the final line of the .htaccess file from “/index.php” to “{appname}/public/index.php” made everything work, thanks!

By: Sree

Sree — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:24:54 +0000

Thank you John
I was trying to create a sample project on ZF by referring the quick start and was about to give up due to the errors. Your article helped a lot and the project is done.