How to set up .htaccess for Kohana correctly, so that there is no ugly "index.php/" in the URL?

Question

After 2 hours now I couldn't get it right.

The Kohana installation is accessible directly under my domain, i.e. "http://something.org/"

Instead of http://something.org/index.php/welcomde/index I want to have URLs like http://something.org/welcome/index

My .htaccess is messed up completely. It's actually the standard example.htaccess that came with the download. It's almost useless. On the kohana page is a tutorial "how to remove the index.php". It's really useless as well, since it will not even talk about how to remove it. Totally confusing.

Please, can someone provide his working .htaccess for a standard kohana installation?

Octopus

Answer 1

My htaccess looks like the example.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(application|modules|system) - [F,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

But you also have to change the config.php file to:

$config['index_page'] = '';

Stroboscope

What's the - [F,L] and [PT,L] thing doing? – Octopus

See the apache manual: httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_flags.html "F|forbidden Using the [F] flag causes Apache to return a 403 Forbidden status code to the client. " "L|last The [L] flag causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set. In most contexts, this means that if the rule matches, no further rules will be processed." "PT|passthrough The target (or substitution string) in a RewriteRule is assumed to be a file path, by default." – Stroboscope

I've set the index_page to '' in application/config/config.php, and used exactly the same .htaccess. I'm still getting this message when leaving away the index.php/ in my URL: "No input file specified"... very strange – Octopus

I'm not exactly sure, but you could try this thread from the kohana forums. forum.kohanaphp.com/… – Stroboscope

That was the solution! I've got a stone old server ;) – Octopus

Answer 2

This is our .htaccess file right now, and it seems to be working.

RewriteEngine On

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

Note that we have our application, system and modules directories all outside of the web root.

Linn

Answer 3

On some hosts, I think specficially when running PHP in CGI mode, you have to change

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

to

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

in your htaccess. So basically you can use the kohana recommended setup, simply replacing index.php/$1 with index.php?/$1

Deplane

It doesn't work. Tried both. config.php has that index_page = ''. Still I can only come to an working controller if I put that index.php/foo inside the URL :/ – Octopus

Hrm, the "No input file specified" is the exact error that adding the question mark usually fixes. Just to clarify, this fix was for htaccess only, nothing in the config.php file. – Deplane

Answer 4

Try this mod_rewrite rule:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule !^index\.php index.php%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

Petta

And that does what mean? Have you already read kohanaphp.com/tutorials/remove_index – Petta

There comes the "input error" message (white page). Yes, I did. They don't talk about how to remove it, although the title promises it. They totally forgot about it during the article. It's a pitty, really. – Octopus

Answer 5

For those who get "forbidden error" 403 on OSX with default .htaccess be sure to add as the first line in .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks

Monadelphous

Answer 6

Kohana 3.2 has a different convention. If you look in Kohana_URL you'll find the following function signature:

public static function site($uri = '', $protocol = NULL, $index = TRUE)

where $index is default to TRUE. By passing a $index FALSE you'll remove the index.php reference.

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