Yii2 Htaccess - How to Hide Frontend/Web and Backend/Web Completely

Yii2 htaccess - How to hide frontend/web and backend/web COMPLETELY

If your only goal is to achieve not ever seeing /frontend/web or /backend/web, even without using .htaccess rules, you could go for the following:

Why not just pull out the contents of the web folders and place them in the root? Just adjust the path referring to the framework and config files in the entry scripts index.php.

Your dir structure would look like:

- yii2app/
    - frontend/
    - backend/
    - common/
    - .. other folders..
    - admin/
        - assets/
        - css/
        - index.php
    - assets/
    - css/
    - index.php

Your yii2app/index.php would then look like:

defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true);
defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev');

require(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/common/config/bootstrap.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/frontend/config/bootstrap.php');

$config = yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::merge(
    require(__DIR__ . '/common/config/main.php'),
    require(__DIR__ . '/common/config/main-local.php'),
    require(__DIR__ . '/frontend/config/main.php'),
    require(__DIR__ . '/frontend/config/main-local.php')
);

$application = new yii\web\Application($config);
$application->run();

and your yii2app/admin/index.php would look like:

defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true);
defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev');

require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../common/config/bootstrap.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../backend/config/bootstrap.php');

$config = yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::merge(
    require(__DIR__ . '/../common/config/main.php'),
    require(__DIR__ . '/../common/config/main-local.php'),
    require(__DIR__ . '/../backend/config/main.php'),
    require(__DIR__ . '/../backend/config/main-local.php')
);

$application = new yii\web\Application($config);
$application->run();

EDIT: your entry scripts could look different to mine, but you should get the idea of changing the paths to find the framework files with these examples.

How to remove frontend/web from url in Yii2 advanced so that it doesn't appear when I use Url::to

Use the following configuration in Apache's httpd.conf file or within a virtual host configuration. Note that you should replace path/to/frontend/web with the actual path for frontend/web.

# Set document root to be "frontend/web"
DocumentRoot "path/to/frontend/web"

<Directory "path/to/frontend/web">
    # use mod_rewrite for pretty URL support
    RewriteEngine on
    # If a directory or a file exists, use the request directly
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    # Otherwise forward the request to index.php
    RewriteRule . index.php

    # ...other settings...
</Directory>

Yii2 Docs

Yii2 - Hide backend/web from URL and use it like app/admin

I suggest you to move your backend\web\index.php file to root folder

then rename it to admin.php and change content to:

<?php
defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', false);
defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'prod');

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php';
require __DIR__ . '/common/config/bootstrap.php';
require __DIR__ . '/backend/config/bootstrap.php';

$config = yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::merge(
require __DIR__ . '/common/config/main.php',
require __DIR__ . '/common/config/main-local.php',
require __DIR__ . '/backend/config/main.php',
require __DIR__ . '/backend/config/main-local.php'
);

(new yii\web\Application($config))->run();

and change .htaccess to:

RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteEngine On
# for backend and control panel
RewriteRule ^admin(.*) admin.php
# If a directory or a file exists, use the request directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . index.php

Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php

your directory must be like this :

• assets
• backend // remove web directory from backend
• common
• console
• frontend // and you can remove web directory from frontend too
• vendor
• index.php // index of frontend
• admin.php // index of backend

at the end;
www.yoursite.com/site/index => frontend/site/index

www.yoursite.com/admin/site/index => backend/site/index

how to remove url (/web/index.php) yii 2 and set route with parameter with clean url?

For advanced application follow these steps:

1) Add the following htaccess to frontend/web

RewriteEngine on

# If a directory or a file exists, use the request directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Otherwise forward the request to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

2) Add the following htaccess to root folder where application is installed

# prevent directory listings
Options -Indexes
IndexIgnore */*

# follow symbolic links
Options FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^admin(/.+)?$ backend/web/$1 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^(.+)?$ frontend/web/$1

3) Edit your frontend/config/main.php file with the following at the top

use \yii\web\Request;
$baseUrl = str_replace('/frontend/web', '', (new Request)->getBaseUrl());

4) Add the request component to the components array in the same file i.e frontend/config/main.php

'components' => [
        'request' => [
            'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
        ],
],

That's it.Now you can access the frontend without web/index.php

For you second question you need to write the rule for it in your URL manager component.

Something like this:

'urlManager' => [
            'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
            'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
            // Disable index.php
            'showScriptName' => false,
            // Disable r= routes
            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
            'rules' => array(
                    'transaction/getrequestdetail/<id>' => 'transaction/getrequestdetail',
           ),
],

Yii2 | Redirect to backend/frontend with htaccess

Although I had enabled mod_rewrite through the terminal via the following command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

But it was not enabled and I manually activated it from ‍/etc/apache2/apache2.conf.

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