My Symfony routes are throwing a 404?

Question

I'm trying to get back into development, trying to set up Symfony on a shared hosting server with GoDaddy.

I am going through the tutorial with Symfony 4 (Here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/page_creation.html) but the URL.co.uk/lucky/number is throwing a 404.

I set the exact same URL route to just / (instead of lucky/number) and it works fine.

This problem occurs with both routes.yaml, and annotations.

<?php

namespace App\Controller;

use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class ArticleController

{
    /**
     * @Route("/")
     */
    public function homepage()
    {
        return new Response('OMG! My new first page already! ');
    }

    /**
     * @Route("/news")
     */
    public function news()
    {
        return new Response('This must be news?');
    }

}

For example, the above works fine with /, but with /news I have a 404 error.

Could this be a problem with .htaccess? I don't have one in my root.

It turns out that, with the above code, URL.co.uk/index.php/news works just fine. obviously I don't want this, but I hope it helps get to the bottom of it...

When you hit `/news`, you get a 404 from symfony or from apache/your web server? If you are not sure, paste the error message here. — Federkun, Mar 11 '18 at 20:52
Not Found The requested URL /news was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. — Marshiewooooooo, Mar 11 '18 at 20:58
That's apache's error message. So, it's not a misconfiguration of symfony: the problem is that when you hit `/news` you are not calling symfony at all. What you could do is to install the https://github.com/symfony/apache-pack meta package. It's just a quick way to add a .htaccess file ( https://github.com/symfony/recipes-contrib/blob/master/symfony/apache-pack/1.0/public/.htaccess ) inside your web directory. `composer require symfony/apache-pack` — Federkun, Mar 11 '18 at 21:03
Okay so installing apache-pack didn't solve it, and it didn't add .htaccess anywhere that I could see - However, manually adding the .htaccess from the link that you provided has fixed the issue!! :) Do you want to answer the question officially? Thank you so much =D — Marshiewooooooo, Mar 11 '18 at 21:17
apache-pack solved the problem for me, you need to redirect all routes to index.php which takes it from there (into symfony kernel). to do this, you need to setup a .htaccess file in your public folder. this is automatically done with [ **composer require symfony/apache-pack** ] — clockw0rk, Aug 03 '20 at 14:26

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '18 at 12:51

symfony 4 does no longer have a .htaccess file in the public folder. So there is no rewrite rules. You have to configure your vhost as explained in the documentation: https://symfony.com/doc/master/setup/web_server_configuration.html

If you don't have access to the vhost file, you still can configure it in a .htaccess file

there is an extract of my vhost file:

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public/

    <Directory /var/www/html/public/>
        Options FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            Options -MultiViews
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
            RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
        </IfModule>

    </Directory>

dumping this command here since many ppl. only search for accepted answere: [ **composer require symfony/apache-pack** ] -> will automatically setup everything for you. I hope this helps anybody — clockw0rk, Aug 03 '20 at 14:28

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '18 at 22:27

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Install .htaccess into the root directory with same code as in this link:

https://github.com/symfony/recipes-contrib/blob/master/symfony/apache-pack/1.0/public/.htaccess

Thank you.

answered Mar 12 '18 at 22:27

Marshiewooooooo

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 01 '22 at 07:06

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You (like I) are missing .htaccess for symfony

Solved with this one liner:

composer require symfony/apache-pack

Make sure the .htaccess file will be processed by apache2:

<Directory /var/www/project/public>
    AllowOverrides All
</Directory>

mod_rewrite needs to be enabled:

a2enmod rewrite
service apache2 restart

edited Jul 01 '22 at 07:06

Community

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answered Dec 16 '21 at 12:19

Juergen Schulze

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If you get the following error using above directive: `Invalid command 'AllowOverrides'`, you'll probably have a newer Apache version with a slightly altered syntax, see the syntax in MatMouth's answer. – Graftak Jul 14 '22 at 11:07

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 12 '18 at 06:07

First install composer require annotations :

Then you are using other class Route:

Change

use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;

to:

use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

Finally check your routes:

php bin/console debug:router

Eidul Ameen Sahul Hamid · Answer 5 · 2022-08-01T03:44:23.860

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instead of URL.co.uk/lucky/number try putting URL.co.uk/index.php/lucky/number

edited Aug 01 '22 at 03:44

answered Jul 20 '22 at 07:00

Eidul Ameen Sahul Hamid

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bro please throw a little details. – ahmednawazbutt Jul 21 '22 at 07:15
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My Symfony routes are throwing a 404?

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