How to remove index.php from Symfony4 router?

Question

I have been following Symfony 4 documentation as to how to configure a web server.

https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/web_server_configuration.html

My .conf file in my apache 2.4 configuration is exactly as described in their documentation. I’m copying part of it here :

<Directory /var/www/project/public>
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
    Allow from All

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        Options -MultiViews
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

Going to my platform, everything works fine but as soon as I’m going to any page, it shows a 404 error. If I add index.php in the url it works fine. Could you help me figure out what is going on?

For example: When I’m on http://myplatform.com/

I can save an email address on this page. If I go to http://myplatform.com/index.php/saveEmail it works, but from my page, my links redirects me to http://myplatform.com/saveEmail and it doesn’t work.

If i go to http://myplatform.com/index.php then everything works fine.

How to I remove index.php from the url ?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I do not know about Symfony. But it should work with all apache2 and php project.

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First you need to do two things:

1. You need to check if php rewrite module is enabled. you can do it with phpinfo(). Write this in a file info.php and open in browser: http://localhost/info.php

   Now search for mod_rewrite. If you see mod_rewrite in this page that means, mod_rewrite is enabled.

2. If mod_rewrite is not enabled, enable it. I enabled in in ubuntu 18.04 for apache with this command: $ sudo a2enmod rewrite. Then restart apache2 $ systemctl restart apache2

if mod_rewrite is enabled, then other configuration will work.

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3. Then add AllowOverride All in .conf file:

   <Directory /var/www/project/public>
       AllowOverride All
   </Directory>
   

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4. Then add .htaccess file in you project root directory.

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
   
       # Send would-be 404 requests to Craft
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule (.+) index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
   </IfModule>
   

Note: Try adding .htaccess file in /var/www/project/.htaccess or in /var/www/project/public/.htaccess. Not sure what will work.

Answer 2

This apache configuration doesn't include the redirection to index.php for every request. You have 2 choices:

• On the same page, there is a configuration which include this redirection after this sentence : "Use the following optimized configuration to disable .htaccess support and increase web server performance:"

• If you want to use .htaccess to proccess this redirection, then you could simply execute composer require apache-pack. This command will install a .htaccess in your public directory.