Zend Framework application without virtual hosts

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Is it possible to configure web server on Windows (Apache or IIS) without setting up virtual hosts so Zend Framework application could be accessed with link like http://example.com/myapp rather than http://example.com/myapp/public?

Have a look at similar questions at SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4151246/install-zend-framework-without-apache-virtual-hosts or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4274839/zend-app-on-host-without-mod-rewrite-and-no-virtual-hosts — Marcin, Feb 14 '11 at 13:08
I did but there's no answer to my question. I don't want the link to include 'public' — yarson, Feb 14 '11 at 14:05

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '11 at 15:56

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use this .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1?%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]

and put this in application.ini

resources.frontController.baseUrl = "/myapp/"

answered Feb 17 '11 at 15:56

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Great! This is what I needed. It works perfectly on Apache and should be easy enough to translate .htaccess rules to IIS web.config Thanks! – yarson Feb 18 '11 at 10:03
@Zebooka why did you use `?${QUERY_STRING}` and `[QSA]`? I thought `[QSA]` appends the query string already :) – Samuel Herzog Dec 09 '11 at 02:31
@SamuelHerzog in mine case it strangely didn't for GET parameters :) – Zebooka Dec 21 '11 at 10:16
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@Zebooka how to use this settings in ZF2 application? – DS9 May 14 '14 at 06:14
Where is the location of application.ini ? Shall I create a new file ? Where to put it ? – Mendes Jun 11 '16 at 20:46
how to do the same in zf2? – Science Aug 29 '18 at 05:12

ksimon · Answer 2 · 2011-02-14T13:14:32.787

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Put .htaccess file wit the following content to your myapp directory:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1

edited Feb 14 '11 at 13:14

answered Feb 14 '11 at 12:55

ksimon

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It doesn't work. I get 404 error because 'myapp' is recognized as controller while it should default to 'index' – yarson Feb 14 '11 at 14:20
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I've a site where it works fine. I put this `.htaccess` to root directory (`../public`) and it has also another `.htaccess` in public directory that shipped with ZF. – ksimon Feb 14 '11 at 14:28
if it does not work, you can check out this site: http://blog.tasuki.org/htaccess-document-root-and-zend-framework/ – ksimon Feb 15 '11 at 07:04
Thanks for the link but it doesn't help in this case. These rules probably work ok if your application is hosted on domain level (http://example.com/) but the problems begin when it's in a folder (http://example.com/myapp) – yarson Feb 15 '11 at 10:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 06 '13 at 06:02

Create a .htaccess file and place it into root direectory with following content

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1

And add below line to your application/configs/applicaton.ini file

resources.frontController.baseUrl = "/myapp/"

There will be no error I will work fine.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 26 '16 at 04:55

As suggested in zend documentation here https://framework.zend.com/manual/2.4/en/user-guide/skeleton-application.html#using-the-built-in-php-cli-server, You can use the built-in CLI server using command

php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public/ public/index.php

to run this just open command prompt and type above command like this

php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t {path_of_project's_public_folder} {path_of_project's_public_folder_upto_idex.php_file}

then hit enter and now you can open to your project like this http://localhost:8080/. Your application is running on 8080 port you can change it to something else like 8000 or 5050.

I hope it will help someone.

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