Enable clean URL in Yii2

Yii2 Problem Overview

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?

Yii2 Solutions

Solution 1 - Yii2

I got it working in yii2. Enable mod_rewrite for Apache. For basic template do the following: Create a .htaccess file in web folder and add this

RewriteEngine on
# If a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Then inside config folder, in web.php add to components

'urlManager' => [
    'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
    // Disable index.php
    'showScriptName' => false,
    // Disable r= routes
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'rules' => array(
            '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
            '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
            '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
    ),
],

In the case of advanced template create the .htaccess files inside backend/web and frontend/web folders and add urlManager component inside common/config/main.php

Solution 2 - Yii2

First important point is that

Module_Rewrite is enabled on your server(LAMP,WAMP,XAMP..etc) For do URL rewiring in yii2 framework Create one .htaccess file and put in /web folder

RewriteEngine on
# If a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Second step

Config folder common/config/main-local.php add to components array

'urlManager' => [
   'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
   // Disable index.php
   'showScriptName' => false,
   // Disable r= routes
   'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
   'rules' => array(
      '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
      '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
      '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
   ),
],

Solution 3 - Yii2

For me, the problem was:

Missing .htaccess in the web folder just like mentioned above.
The AllowOverride directive was set to None, which disabled URL rewrites. I changed it to All and now pretty URLs work nicely.

<Directory "/path/to/the/web/directory/">
  Options Indexes 
  FollowSymLinks MultiViews 
  AllowOverride All 
  Require all granted
</Directory>

Solution 4 - Yii2

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

Options +Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
  RewriteEngine on

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

# Deny accessing below extensions
<Files ~ "(.json|.lock|.git)">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# 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

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

<?php

use \yii\web\Request;
$baseUrl = str_replace('/frontend/web', '', (new Request)->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;

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

Solution 5 - Yii2

on nginx configure like that

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

Solution 6 - Yii2

Just to add to this discussion - I've just installed Yii2, and it includes the following commented-out code in config/web.php:

'urlManager' => [
  'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
  'showScriptName' => false,
  'rules' => [],
],

If you add the .htaccess file in the accepted answer, then just uncomment the above, pretty URLs will work (I have no idea what the "rules" in the accepted answer are for, but everything seems to work without them).

Solution 7 - Yii2

Step 1: Put .htaccess file in root.

Options –Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
  RewriteEngine on

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

# Deny accessing below extensions
<Files ~ "(.json|.lock|.git)">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

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

Step 2: Put .htaccess file in frontend/web.

RewriteEngine on
# If a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Step 3: Then changes in frontend/config/main.php. Following code need to be added inside 'components' => [].

'request' => [
 'csrfParam' => '_csrf-frontend',
 'baseUrl' => '/yii-advanced', //http://localhost/yii-advanced
],

'urlManager' => [
  'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
  'showScriptName' => false, // Disable index.php
  'enablePrettyUrl' => true, // Disable r= routes
  'rules' => array(
          'about' => 'site/about',
          'service' => 'site/service',
          'contact' => 'site/contact',
          'signup' => 'site/signup',
          'login' => 'site/login',
  ),
],

Above steps are worked for me.

Solution 8 - Yii2

What worked for me-
create a .htaccess at root folder of my Yii2 project, and added following-

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ web/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ web/index.php
</IfModule>

Created new .htaccess file web folders with following content:

frontend/web/

and added following-

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php

Then added urlmanager here-

projectFolder/common/config/main.php

For me it was not there, so added this as-

'urlManager' => [
    'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
   /* 'rules' => [
        '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',

    ],*/
],

Make sure this code must be in 'components' => [].

Restart my server and everything works fine.

Solution 9 - Yii2

Step-by-step instruction

Step 1

At the root of the project add a .htaccess with the following content:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine On
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(web)
    RewriteRule ^assets/(.*)$ /web/assets/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^css/(.*)$ web/css/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^js/(.*)$ web/js/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ web/images/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) /web/$1
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /web/index.php

Step 2

In the folder /web add a .htaccess file with the following content:

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 
RewriteRule . index.php

Step 3

In the file /config/web.php in element components of array add folowing code:

'request' => [
    // !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
    'cookieValidationKey' => 'yYy4YYYX8lYyYyQOl8vOcO6ROo7i8twO',
    'baseUrl' => ''
],
 
//...
 
'urlManager' => [
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'rules' => [
        '' => 'site/index',                                
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/' => '<controller>/<action>',
    ],
],

Done..

Solution 10 - Yii2

Step1: in project config/main.php eg: frontend/config/main.php

'urlManager' => [
            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
            'showScriptName' => false,
            'rules' => [],
        ]

Step2: create .htaccess file inset web folder eg: frontend/web

RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

#php_flag  display_errors        on
#php_value error_reporting       2039

Solution 11 - Yii2

Just add below code to your config file.

'urlManager' => [
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'rules' => [
        // your rules go here
    ],
    // ...
]

Solution 12 - Yii2

if you have installed yii2 application theme
go to basic/web/
inside -> .htaccess "paste code below if not exist"

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

then go to config/
inside web.php uncomment line starting from 47 to 52 (lines may be changed) or something similar to this..

'urlManager' => [
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        'showScriptName' => false,
        'rules' => [
        ],
    ],

Solution 13 - Yii2

I installed a new version of this framework.

In backend/config/main.php, you can see the code that is commented you can use this and do this for the frontend folder`.

Solution 14 - Yii2

config/web.php

$params = require __DIR__ . '/params.php';
$db = require __DIR__ . '/db.php';


$config = [
'id' => 'basic',
'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
'bootstrap' => ['log'],
'aliases' => [
'@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
'@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
],
'components' => [
'assetManager' => [
// override bundles to use local project files :
'bundles' => [
'yii\bootstrap4\BootstrapAsset' => [
'sourcePath' => '@app/assets/source/bootstrap/dist',
'css' => [
YII_ENV_DEV ? 'css/bootstrap.css' : 'css/bootstrap.min.css',
],
],
'yii\bootstrap4\BootstrapPluginAsset' => [
'sourcePath' => '@app/assets/source/bootstrap/dist',
'js' => [
YII_ENV_DEV ? 'js/bootstrap.js' : 'js/bootstrap.min.js',
]
],
],
],

'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => 'V_Pj-uMLTPPxv0Be5Bwe3-UCC6EjGRuH',
'baseUrl' => '',
],

'formatter' => [
'dateFormat' => 'dd/MM/yyyy',
'decimalSeparator' => ',',
'thousandSeparator' => '.',
'currencyCode'      => 'BRL',
'locale'        => 'pt-BR',
'defaultTimeZone'   => 'America/Sao_Paulo',
'class'         => 'yii\i18n\Formatter',
],
'datehelper' => [
'class' => 'app\components\DateBRHelper',
],
'formatcurrency' => [
'class' => 'app\components\FormatCurrency',
],
'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => '123456',

],
'cache' => [
'class' => 'yii\caching\FileCache',
],
'user' => [
'identityClass' => 'app\models\User',
'enableAutoLogin' => true,
],
'errorHandler' => [
'errorAction' => 'site/error',
],
'mailer' => [
'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
// send all mails to a file by default. You have to set
// 'useFileTransport' to false and configure a transport
// for the mailer to send real emails.
'useFileTransport' => true,
],
'log' => [
'traceLevel' => YII_DEBUG ? 3 : 0,
'targets' => [
[
'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',
'levels' => ['error', 'warning'],
],
],
],
'db' => $db,

'urlManager' => [
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'enableStrictParsing' => true,
'rules' => [
'' => 'site/index',                                
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/' => '<controller>/<action>',
],
],

],
'params' => $params,
];

if (YII_ENV_DEV) {
// configuration adjustments for 'dev' environment
$config['bootstrap'][] = 'debug';
$config['modules']['debug'] = [
'class' => 'yii\debug\Module',
// uncomment the following to add your IP if you are not connecting from localhost.
//'allowedIPs' => ['127.0.0.1', '::1'],
];

$config['bootstrap'][] = 'gii';
$config['modules']['gii'] = [
'class' => 'yii\gii\Module',
// uncomment the following to add your IP if you are not connecting from localhost.
//'allowedIPs' => ['127.0.0.1', '::1'],
];
}

return $config;

arquivo .htaccess na pasta raiz

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ web/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ web/index.php
</IfModule>

.htaccess dentro da pasta web/

RewriteEngine on

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

RewriteRule . index.php

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