Symfony routing not working

Question

I am using a normal host (i.e access to web pages via public_html and no access to php (apache) configuration).

so here what i did

I've also added a route to my page (template) named "littlebird"

Problem

when I call www.mywebsite.com/littlebird => 404 page not found

but when I use www.mywebsite.com/index.php/littlebird every thing works just fine.

check if `mod_rewrite` is turned on then check rewrite rules in `.htaccess` — zerkms, Dec 04 '13 at 00:09
then you have lost your `.htaccess` somewhere. Symfony2 is shipped with a `.htaccess` with more than 50 lines in total: https://github.com/symfony/symfony-standard/blob/master/web/.htaccess — zerkms, Dec 04 '13 at 00:21

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 04 '13 at 10:48

My original guess was that you didn't have the mod_rewrite turned on.

But during our discussion we've found that you have replaced the original .htaccess with something else.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '13 at 00:05

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It seems to me like you don't have a index.php value within DirectoryIndex.

Try editing your .htaccess file that is located in littlebird and adding/updating it with:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

answered Dec 04 '13 at 00:05

Jovan Perovic

It has nothing to do with `DirectoryIndex` – zerkms Dec 04 '13 at 00:06
@Badik Ali: symfony2 requires *deep* knowledge of how the whole technologies stack works. So I hardly doubt that *guessing* is a symfony-way. – zerkms Dec 04 '13 at 00:07
@BadikAli: OK, you will be able to distinguish Symfony's 404 and Apache 404. So, which one do you get? Have you make sure that `.htaccess` rewrites you URL to `index.php` and not `app.php`? – Jovan Perovic Dec 04 '13 at 00:09
@jperovic I think Apache 404 – seddik Dec 04 '13 at 00:11
OK, then follow `@zerkms`'s suggestion about checking if you have `mod_rewrite` turned on. Usually, `.htaccess` has condition checks if it's enabled. The most basic, and quickest/dirtiest, way is to just comment out those `` tags. If page crashes then with HTTP500, you most probably don't have `mod_rewrite`... – Jovan Perovic Dec 04 '13 at 00:15
I only have **Options -Indexes** in my .htaccess @jperovic – seddik Dec 04 '13 at 00:16
Are you referring to `littlebird/.htaccess` file? That file should contain a lot of lines (like 20-ish or 30-ish) – Jovan Perovic Dec 04 '13 at 00:18

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