Route all requests, not matching other routes, to single action

Question

I used catchAll route to my config

'catchAll' => ['site/page']

and it works fine.

But all request are going to this action, even that one that have a separate controller/action.

How can I map the routing to match the controller/action at first, and if corresponding controller/action doesn't not exists, then fallback to catch all route?

Answer 1

This config does what you want:

'urlManager' => [
    'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'rules' => [
        'contact' => 'site/contact',
        '/' => 'page/view',
------> HERE
        '/<url:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+>' => 'site/page',
    ],
],

You should probably modify the rule to catch more chars. I used this, because I know my routes.

The catchAllshould be used when you want to put the website into maintenance mode. The error catch can also be used in this case.