Apache2, FastCGI, PHP5 and urls without .php sufix

Question

I have to configure my Apache2 server to host an old web application, based on Joomla 1.5. Apache is running on Debian Stretch, with PHP 7 as mod_php. I manage to install PHP 5.6 as FastCgi module and it looks like working as an alternative to PHP 7.

My VirtualHost looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName site.pl

  DocumentRoot /var/www/site/html
  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

  <FilesMatch ".+\.ph(p[3457]?|t|tml)$">
        SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost"
  </FilesMatch>

</Virtualhost>

And it works very well with basic urls, like:

http://site.pl/index.php

The problem is with other urls generated by this old CMS, like:

http://site.pl/index.php/category/page

I get 404 error, obviously.

I don't know how to keep this kind of urls and handle them with FastCgi proxy. What FileMatch cover this url? Any ideas?

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david · Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T14:10:01.027

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The argument in FilesMatch appears to be a regular expression, so you could adapt it to also match URLs generated by the old CMS, for example:

.+\.ph(p[3457]?|t|tml)(/.*)*$

Notice the (/.*)* at the end, which matches the additional path after index.php, but can be omitted, so that URLs without path are also matched.

edited May 10 '18 at 14:10

answered May 10 '18 at 13:54

david

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Unfortunately it doesn't work. I don't know really why but with such a configuration FileMatch doesn't cover even basic urls (like http://site.pl/index.php). – Jakub Królikowski May 10 '18 at 14:07
Can you try again, with the added `*` at the end? – david May 10 '18 at 14:10

Apache2, FastCGI, PHP5 and urls without .php sufix

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