YII URL how to generate new URL

Question

I have one site in which I want URL like SiteURL/about.html.

I have changed code in config/main.php but when I login to site then gets session expired when I navigate to any other page.

If comment this code 'showScriptName'=>false in config/main.php file, then its work fine and now my login session is saved and us not expired however now my URL is becoming like this SiteURL/index.php/about.html

But I want URL like about.html.

I have also one another controller for game option which URL is like: http://www.demo.com/index.php/Games/info/9.html but I want URL like SiteURL/black-hook.html in this "black-hook" is the name of the game.

'urlManager'=>array( 
          'urlFormat'=>'path', 
          'showScriptName'=>FALSE, 
          'rules'=>array(
                 '<action>'=>'site/<action>',
                 '<view>'=>'array('site/page')',
                 '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
                 '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                 '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>'
           ), 
     ),

*SiteURL = http://www.demo.com

Answer 1

First to get .html appended to your pages you need to use fake url suffix option in urlManager

This can be done by adding 'urlSuffix' =>'.html' to your urlManager config like this

'urlManager'=>array( 
          'urlFormat'=>'path', 
          'showScriptName'=>false, 
           'urlSuffix'=>'.html',
          'rules'=>array(
                 '<action>'=>'site/<action>',
                 '<view>'=>'site/page',
                 '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
                 '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                 '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>'
           ),
     ),

Secondly for hiding index.php (called the entry script) in your URL in addition to changing configuration here you need to change configuration in your apache/nginx server.

Create the file /.htaccess with the following content and save it

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

Next verify if the AllowOveride All is there for your app directory in your apache configuration file You can also add the above configuration directly to your apache configuration file using Directory element without using .htaccess . Note: For this to work you need to have rewrite engine enabled in apache config, You can do so with the following set of commands

a2enmod rewrite

Finally Restart apache2 after

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

or

service apache2 restart