[Question] Changing the Flight "base" path.

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[Question] Changing the Flight "base" path.

[mikecao]

Can you tell me a little more about your setup? How are you folders arranged and what is in your .htaccess file?

[thybag]

Hello,

The .htaccess file itself is pretty much the default, the only change being that its rewriting the URL to be a folder up from its normal location.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php [QSA,L]

The issue then comes about as the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is unaware of the extra folders existence, meaning it sees the path as "/website/my/file/path" rather than the "/website/public/my/file/path". $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAMEI'] on the other hand still pulls back the "real" path which includes the public folder.

The end result is that since the basename found isn't part of the url Flight is seeing, flight ends up trying to route on "/website/my/file/path" rather than "/my/file/path" which results in it 404ing.

I guessed that the best way to get around the issue would be to manually set the basename, although since the Request object appears to be created when flight starts, it turned out i also had to update the Request url parameter to reflect the basename change (as in the code in my first post).

My work around appears to work correctly so far, although still feels a little hacky. I wanted to double check there wasn't a proper way to achieve the same kind of result which i may have missed etc.

Thanks,.
thybag

[mikecao]

I think you're handling it correctly given the situation. I'll see if I can find a solution for setting the basename through the framework, possibly as a config.

You may also want to look into the RewriteBase directive and see if that helps.