Remove index.php from url yii

Remove index.php from url yii

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First turn rewrite engine on for your xampp, wampp or apache server

There is one more thing that we can do to further clean our URLs, i.e., hiding the entry script index.php in the URL. This requires us to configure the Web server as well as the urlManager application component.

We first need to configure the Web server so that a URL without the entry script can still be handled by the entry script. For Apache HTTP server, this can be done by turning on the URL rewriting engine and specifying some rewriting rules. We can create the file /wwwroot/blog/.htaccess with the following content. Note that the same content can also be put in the Apache configuration file within the Directory element for /wwwroot/blog.

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 . index.php

We then configure the showScriptName property of the urlManager component to be false.
Now if we call $this->createUrl('post/read',array('id'=>100)), we would obtain the URL /post/100. More importantly, this URL can be properly recognized by our Web application.

7. Faking URL Suffix ¶

We may also add some suffix to our URLs. For example, we can have /post/100.html instead of /post/100. This makes it look more like a URL to a static Web page. To do so, simply configure the urlManager component by setting its urlSuffix property to the suffix you like.

Thanks for guidance.

One more thing.
How can change static pages urls. E.g; following is url for About page.

http://localhost/main/yii/wf/site/page?view=about

How can I change it to more friendly url by removing '?' sign from url.

ANS:
Add the following line at first of components->urlManager->rules
'site/page/<view:\w+>'=>'site/page'




Thanks in advance

<?php
// uncomment the following to define a path alias
// Yii::setPathOfAlias('local','path/to/local-folder');
// This is the main Web application configuration. Any writable
// CWebApplication properties can be configured here.
return array(
        'basePath'=>dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..',
        'name'=>'My Web Application',

        // preloading 'log' component
        'preload'=>array('log'),

        // autoloading model and component classes
        'import'=>array(
                'application.models.*',
                'application.components.*',
        ),

        // application components
        'components'=>array(
                'user'=>array(
                        // enable cookie-based authentication
                        'allowAutoLogin'=>true,
                ),
                // uncomment the following to enable URLs in path-format
                
                'urlManager'=>array(
                        'urlFormat'=>'path',

                        'showScriptName' => false,

                        'rules'=>array( 

                                'site/page/<view:\w+>'=>'site/page',
                                '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
                                '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                                '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                        ),
                ),
                
                'db'=>array(
                        'connectionString' => 'sqlite:protected/data/testdrive.db',
                ),
                // uncomment the following to use a MySQL database
                /*
                'db'=>array(
                        'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdrive',
                        'emulatePrepare' => true,
                        'username' => 'root',
                        'password' => '',
                        'charset' => 'utf8',
                ),
                */
                'errorHandler'=>array(
                        // use 'site/error' action to display errors
            'errorAction'=>'site/error',
        ),
                'log'=>array(
                        'class'=>'CLogRouter',
                        'routes'=>array(
                                array(
                                        'class'=>'CFileLogRoute',
                                        'levels'=>'error, warning',
                                ),
                                // uncomment the following to show log messages on web pages
                                /*
                                array(
                                        'class'=>'CWebLogRoute',
                                ),
                                */
                        ),
                ),
        ),

        // application-level parameters that can be accessed
        // using Yii::app()->params['paramName']
        'params'=>array(
                // this is used in contact page
                'adminEmail'=>'webmaster@example.com',
        ),
);