Zend Framework site with Drupal (or any other CMS) in subfolder)

Question

I'm building web site/application based on Zend Framework. For large number of pages I want to use Drupal. Drupal is presumably installed in /cms folder.

Zend Framework entry point is

/public/index.php

And for Drupal is

/public/cms/index.php

How can it be done with some .htaccess mod_rewrite rules to remove "/cms/" part for URL for Drupal, that is, I want link to page to be

www.example.com/blog/a-blog-post

instead of

www.example.com/cms/blog/a-blog-post

Also, I want my custom Routes from Zend Framework to work properly.

Subquestion: Who will serve 404 not-found page, Zend Framework app or Drupal ?

Answer 1

Not sure how Drupal handles it's root hostname, but using the default mod_rewrite rules in Zend Framework, anything in the public path that exists as a folder will override the ZF routes.

So I'm guessing if you install Drupal in public/blog you could path out to www.example.com/blog/a-post-name and it would hit Drupal. At least that's what I do when using Wordpress in conjunction with ZF.

Error pages would be rendered depending on which application is running when the error is encountered.

Answer 2

As long as your drupal urls are all '/blog' a single rewrite rule for that should suffice as long as it is interpreted before zend frameworks rewrite rules.

I'm just pulling this from the top of my head, so I hope it works:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /cms/index.php [L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

The important [L] tells apache it's the last rule and shouldn't go further. This should work but it might need some massaging.;)

To answer your subquestion, the 404 will be tossed by both. Anything not found in /blog will be drupal, anything else not found will be ZF.