How to debug routing in Zend Framework?

Question

My Zend framework routing setup is not working as desired. When I access "site", the code under application/modules/default/views/script/index/index.phtml is executed, as desired.

However, when I try "site/home", I get a 404 error page. The apache log shows ( File does not exist: /var/www/site/public/home). In addition, accessing http://site/default/index/index produces the same result. (http://site/index works fine.)

Zend version: 1.10.8

Apache /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/site/public"

    <Directory /var/www/site/public>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

My /var/www/site/public/.htaccess file

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

My /var/www/site/public/index.php

...
/** Zend_Application */
require_once 'Zend/Application.php';

// Create application, bootstrap, and run
$application = new Zend_Application(
    APPLICATION_ENV,
    APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
);
$application->bootstrap()
            ->run();

My application.ini file:

[production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0
phpSettings.display_errors = 0
includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library"
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"
appnamespace = "Application"
resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"
resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 0
resources.modules = ""

resources.router.routes.home.route = /home
resources.router.routes.home.defaults.module = default
resources.router.routes.home.defaults.controller = index
resources.router.routes.home.defaults.action = index

resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts/scripts/"

resources.view[] =

autoloaderNamespaces[] = "Site_"

[development : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 1

I have tried moving routes into routes.ini and adding them in application/Bootstrap.php as follows:

   $config = new Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/routes.ini', 'production');
   $router = new Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite();
   $router->addConfig($config, 'routes');

  $r = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
      'home/',
      array(
          'controller' => 'index',
          'action'     => 'index'
      )
  );
  $router->addRoute('home', $r);

However, it did not help. I spent the entire day going through the manuals, books, and web forums trying to find the problem to no avail. (I have been following "Zend Framework" by Vikram Vaswani.)

Do you know if the 404 error is coming from Apache or ZF? I can't see anything obviously wrong with what you've posted. — Tim Fountain

MiPnamic MiPnamic · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-29T08:55:20

My Vhost Directory:

<Directory /var/www/site/public/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymlinks

    php_admin_flag engine on
    php_admin_flag safe_mode off
    php_admin_value open_basedir none
</Directory>

How to debug routing in Zend Framework?

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