how to remove the index.php from the cakephp url? In order to access my forms folder, I have to give the url : http://localhost/cake_1_2/index.php/forms.
how do i remove that index.php?
I removed the .htaccess from the folders as mentioned in core.php and uncommented the App.baseUrl line. Yet,I'm not able to view the page without the index.php in the url.
If you're using CakePHP with mod_rewrite on (to get pretty URL's) you can create new folders within WEBROOT and access files just fine.
Example:
Site/webroot/forms/form.php = http://www.sitename.com/forms/form.php
CakePHP's mod_rewrite is setup to check for existing files in WEBROOT and NOT pass them to index.php.
If you need to get up to folder outside of webroot you might consider playing with Symbolic links.
Check the CakePHP Install guide section for mod_rewrite. Once enabled in Apache, the pretty URLs will just work. If you're not using Apache, you're stuck with ugly URLs.
I had the same issue and had index.php in the URL. You're editing the wrong area in httpd.conf. Also, ensure your .htaccess files exist in: /.htaccess, /app/.htaccess and /app/webroot/.htaccess
Your httpd.conf should look something like this:
# Leave this area alone, CakePHP docs are wrong
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
# Match this area
<Directory "/SomePath/app/webroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All # Turn AllowOverride All on here
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
After doing this, I can easily create routes & access pages like: http://localhost/about/
Enjoy!
you can also check this mod rewrite tutorial here. it has general info which will be useful for url cleaning in many situations. there are also examples included.
Simply follow these following steps to verify it is there or not
Check you root, app, webroot contains the actual .htaccess file.
The apachee server have the following configuration:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All#
Order deny,allow#
Deny from all
</Directory>
Also this line is uncammented:
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
Then restart your apache to see the changes
So, it should be ok? You already have mod_rewrite?
If mod_rewrite is correctly loaded, .htaccess files are in place and index.php still appears in links then it is most probably problem with core.php framework configuration file.
Problem cause
In my case it was problem with App.baseUrl configuration option:
Configure::write('App.baseUrl', env('SCRIPT_NAME'));
Solving problem
Here is how I fixed that problem (and few others with redirects) by commenting out following line from core.php:
// Configure::write('App.baseUrl', env('SCRIPT_NAME'));
or cake 3+ at config/app.php
//'baseUrl' => env('SCRIPT_NAME')
