cakephp rewrite url not working

Question

I have the CakePHP simple program ( CakePHP: version 2.1.3, Centos 6.x and Apache: 2.2.15).

Now I want to change url from: http://domain.com/frontend/login

to new url like: http://domain.com/user-login.html

I want to use new URL, and remove old URL.

I tried to rewrite ( by config .htaccess with mod rewrite, I configed /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf already: Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All).

and some .htaccess files like belows:

/root/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
   #rewrite to new url
   RewriteRule ^frontend/login$  user-login.html [L]
 </IfModule>

/root/app/.htaccess

 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
 </IfModule>

and /root/app/webroot/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

But my new url http://domain.com/user-login.html is not work.

There is any thing wrong in my config?

Add some error logging into your web sever configuration or application and help clarify what you mean when you say that your URL isn't working. — davidjb

Mike Rockétt Mike Rockétt · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-24T05:12:12

You should not be doing this with .htaccess. If you do, CakePHP will not understand the request.

Instead, you need to connect a route to a controller in CakePHP itself. In essence, you are creating an alias URI for the controller method in question. The documentation for routing is available here:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html

Essentially, you need to open up app/Config/routes.php, and enter the following:

Router::connect(
    '/user-login.html',
    array('controller' => 'frontend', 'action' => 'login')
);

(Assuming your controller is called frontend.)

If that does not work, then you may need to tell CakePHP to parse and strip out the extension first:

Router::parseExtensions('html');

And then route like this instead:

Router::connect(
    '/user-login',
    array('controller' => 'frontend', 'action' => 'login')
);

Note: I have not tested this. The above is simply based on what is described in the documentation.

Update: Redirect from old URIs

Now that the application understands the routes you want to use, you can create redirects in your first .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^frontend/login$ /user-login.html [R=302,L]
# ... etc ...

Alternatively, you can use the Router::redirect() in your route configuration:

Router::redirect('/frontend/login', '/user-login.html', array('status' => 302));

(To make that redirect permanent and cached by browsers and search engines, change 302 to 301.)

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