Deploy PHP Slim project to Hostgator using subdomain - php

Question

I have a very simple Slim app that works fine on my Ubuntu machine but I get an error 500 when I deploy it to a Hostgator shared account using a subdomain.
I suspect the problem lies in my .htaccess file.
The structure of my files is:
project/
├──api/
│ ├── .htaccess
│ ├── services.php
├──src/
├──vendor/
My Slim app (services.php):
<?php
use \Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;
use \Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;
require_once '../src/vendor/autoload.php';
$c = new \Slim\Container();
$c['notFoundHandler'] = function ($c) {
return function ($request, $response) use ($c) {
return $c['response']
->withStatus(404)
->withHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html')
->write('Invalid endpoint');
};
};
$app = new \Slim\App($c);
$app->post('/myEndpoint', function (Request $request, Response $response, array $args) {
if($request->getHeader("key") != null && $request->getHeader("key")[0] == "123456789="){
$reqdata = $request->getParsedBody();
$data = $reqdata['data'];
return json_encode('{"data":'.$data.',"response":"OK","errorcode":"0"}');
} else {
return '{"data":"","response":"Access denied","errorcode":"9999"}';
}
});
$app->run();
My .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . services.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
# Use PHP71 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php71 .php
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
suPHP_ConfigPath /opt/php71/lib
</IfModule>
I created a subdomain (api.mydomain.com) with project/api/ as document root.
When I make a POST request in my local installation to
127.0.0.1/api/services.php/myEndpoint
works as expected and returns the data. However, when I make the same request to my Hostgator subdomain:
api.mydomain.com/services.php/myEndpoint
I get the error 500.
Note that if I add a simple test.php file to my api/ directory that only prints something, e.g.
<?php
echo "OK"
?>
and I go to api.mydomain.com/test.php, it works fine and prints the string.
What do I need to change or add in my .htaccess for my slim app to work?

Answer 1

I solved it by doing two things:
I moved my project folder to public_html, created again the subdomain and pointed it to the project directory.
I updated my .htaccess file IfModule mod_rewrite.c section. It now looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ services.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
The difference with the previous one is I added this line:
RewriteBase /
And this one:
RewriteRule . services.php [QSA,L]
updated to this:
RewriteRule ^ services.php [QSA,L]
I got the .htaccess fixes here:
https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/deploy-slim-project-to-hostgator-using-subdomain/3187/7