Yii: .htaccess and urlManager for separate backend and frontend

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I'm having a hard time to configure my .htaccess and the urlManager in a Yii project to have the frontend in http://www.example.com and the backend in http://www.example.com/backend with the following folder structure. Any help is welcome. Thanks. ``` /assets /backend /controllers /config main.php /models /views /common /models /protected /controllers /config main.php /models /views .htaccess backend.php index.php ``` Solution: after the great help of @bool.dev everything it's working, so I'm adding here every needed final file. In the frontend I'm using path format for the url and hiding the index.php /backend/config/main.php ``` $backend=dirname(dirname(__FILE__)); Yii::setPathOfAlias('backend', $backend); return array( 'basePath' => $backend, 'controllerPath' => $backend.'/controllers', 'viewPath' => $backend.'/views', 'runtimePath' => $backend.'/runtime', ...); ``` /protected/config/main.php ``` 'urlManager'=>array( 'urlFormat'=>'path', 'showScriptName'=>false, 'rules'=>array( '<c…

Accepted Answer

According to this wiki article by Qiang, you could make the following changes and it should work:

```
// backend.php:
require('path/to/yii.php');
Yii::createWebApplication('backend/config/main.php')->run();
```

Then in your backend's config (i.e backend/config/main.php):

```
$backend=dirname(dirname(__FILE__));
$frontend=dirname($backend);
Yii::setPathOfAlias('backend', $backend);

return array(
    'basePath' => $backend,

'controllerPath' => $backend.'/controllers',
    'viewPath' => $backend.'/views',
    'runtimePath' => $backend.'/runtime',

'import' => array(
        'backend.models.*',
    ),
    // ... other configurations ...
);
```

But for this to work we need the main .htaccess to route example.com/backend to backend.php, which i haven't figured out yet.

Edit: Just figured out:

```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /projectroot/
RewriteRule backend backend\.php [T=application/x-httpd-php]
```

The `RewriteBase` was important for me, as the backend.php was not found when i hadn't given the correct projectroot, basically it should be the directory where you have the entry script backend.php.

Yii: .htaccess and urlManager for separate backend and frontend

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