Enable clean URL in Yii2

Question

How can I enable clean urls in Yii2. I want to remove index.php and \'?\' from url parameters. Which section needs to be edited in Yii2 for that?

Answer 1

First, create a .htaccess at root folder in your Yii2 project with following content:

Options +Indexes

 
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ frontend/web/$1 [L] 


# Deny accessing below extensions

Order allow,deny
Deny from all


# Deny accessing dot files
RewriteRule (^\.|/\.) - [F]

Create another .htaccess file in your web folders with following content:

frontend/web/ add backend/web/ Don't forget to add .htaccess file to both web folders:

RewriteEngine on

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

RewriteRule . index.php

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Now It's done. Change your URL configuration in Yii2:

getBaseUrl());


$config = [
    'components' => [
        'request' => [
            // !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
            'cookieValidationKey' => 'aiJXeUjj8XjKYIG1gurMMnccRWHvURMq',
            'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
        ],
         "urlManager" => [
            'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
            'showScriptName' => false,
            "rules" => [
                "home" => "site/index",
                "about-us" => "site/about",
                "contact-us" => "site/contact",
            ]
        ]
    ],
];

return $config;

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Your URL will change to:

localhost/yii2project/site/about => localhost/yii2project/about-us localhost/yii2project/site/contact => localhost/yii2project/contact-us localhost/yii2project/site/index => localhost/yii2project/home

You can access your admin through

localhost/yii2project/backend/web