Configure PhpStorm to use .htaccess

Question

I added .htaccess (for rewriting URLs) in my project\'s root directory but it\'s not working. I checked twice, the same file is working fine in Eclipse.

Answer 1

1. Indeed, PHP's built-in web server will never fully support .htaccess features. Note: it is PHP's, it is NOT PHPStorm's built-in server.

But there is a way around.

2. Most of the time, rewrites are needed only to redirect all the nonstatic file queries to index.php. If you only need this, you can set the server's "router script" in PHPStorm run configuration to index.php.

3. After that, a modest hack in index.php to serve static files from the drive may speed things up.

Add to the very beginning of index.php:

if (preg_match('/\.(?:php|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|css|js)\??.*$/',
    $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])) 
{
    return false; // serve the requested resource as-is.
}