Deploying yii2 in a subdirectory

Question

I deployed yii2 on a subdirectory. I am encountering problems on the redirection. On my localhost, i worked my project not in a subdirectory, so I am not having any problems. But when I deployed it on our live server and put the project in a subdirectory, I am having problems.

My problem is that when I visit the homepage of my site I am being redirected to the root of the website.

Here's an example: Main site: http://example.com/

Yii2 Site: http://example.com/myproject/

When I try to go to http://example.com/myproject/, I am expected to be redirected at http://example.com/myproject/login, instead I am redirected to http://example.com/login.

I already changed my .htaccess into this one

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 ^(.*) system/index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

But i think this one is wrong though...

I also have this one on my web.php

$config = [
    'id' => 'basic',
    'basePath' => dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '..',
    'defaultRoute' => 'site/login',
     //... other codes here...

As you can see i have a defaultRoute to be site/login but it seems i keep on redirecting on the /login, which is not in a subfolder link.

Any help how to set up yii2 in a subdirectory

Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

The UrlManager doesn't know that the app is not in the webserver's root directory. Try setting your $config['components']['urlManager']['baseUrl'] to your project's path:

// in web.php
$config = [
    'id' => 'basic',
    //... other codes here...
    'components' => [
        'urlManager' => [
            'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',        
            'baseUrl' => 'myproject',
        ]
    ]
]

BTW, you could shorten your basePath definition to

'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),

which should return the same directory with less (and IMHO cleaner) code.