Yii2 Basic App HtAccess Rules when deploying on shared server

Question

I have set up a site with the yii2 basic app, everything works fine on my localhost, I just deployed my application by cloning the repo from git on the root of /public_html folder updated composer and ran the migrations, all went fine after that I added

public_html/.htaccess

and

public_html/web/.htaccess

files with the following set of rules

public_html/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ web/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ web/index.php
</IfModule> 

public_html/web/.htaccess

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

RewriteRule . index.php

UrlManager in config/web.php

'urlManager' => [
    'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'baseUrl' => sprintf(
            "%s://%s", isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'off' ? 'https' : 'http', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
    ),
    'rules' => [
        '' => 'site/index',
        'tos' => 'site/tos',
        'privacy-policy' => 'site/privacy',
        '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
        '<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<module>/<controller>/<action>',
    ],
],

Whatever i do i always land on the home page i have 3 links in the footer Terms&conditions Contact and Privacy Policy, they all are showing the home page although the url shown in the address bar is correctly transalated by the UrlManager to be right but the view loaded is always home page you.

Note : i havent cloned the repo outside the public_html folder as the Yii2 guide says, instead i have cloned the git repo inside the public_html, i dont think it is not doable, as the advanced app works too if cloned inside the publich_html rather than outside

Answer 1

You can use symlinks for this. You can put project anywhere and only create symlinks to directories forced by your hosting. For example, put project in ~/domains/example.com/project and create symlink to public_html directory.

cd ~/domains/example.com
# remove old public_html directory
mv public_html old_public_html
# create symlink for webroot
ln -s ./project/web public_html

No need to change your project structure and no twisted rewrite rules.

Answer 2

Yii 2 Basic app has to placed outside the public_html directory as described in the docs and you cant setup inside the public_html and instead you have to rename the web to public_html and then clone it outside the public_html directory so that it is overridden by your renamed folder (web -> public_html) contents.