Can I change my custom controller name in Symfony2? - php

Hi I have a fully functioning Symfony2 application. Now as part of the SEO work I need to change the urls. I am able to change the last part of the url by changing in the routes file. But the string after domain name which is controller name, i can't change.
My current URL: http://example.com/logics/show
Updated URL should be http://example.com/logic/show
I have tried to rename the controller filename and class name. But its not worked.
Please guide me how to change the controller name throughout the application or in URL ?

The easiest way to do a redirect is changing your routing.yml file.
For SEO reasons, you must redirect your old public URLs with a 301, if change is temporal you can do 302, Symfony allow do this easiest, like this example:
redirect_logic_show:
path: /logics/show
defaults:
_controller: FrameworkBundle:Redirect:redirect
route: logic_show
permanent: true
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In my symfony2 application I want specific routes for my pages, to work well with my seo, but I receive some serious problems and I dont understand them..
EXAMPLE:
Two routes:
blog_article:
path: /blog/{slug}
defaults: {_controller: ApplicationEDBlogBundle:Blog:singleArticle}
product:
path: /{category}/{name}
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The product route works fine, but the blog_article route always redirects to product route..
In my understanding if i open blog: /blog/firstBlog/ by default it thinks that the blog is a category and firstBlog is the product name, because my product route is the last route.
But if in my twig i specificaly tell which route to go to, shouldnt it work?
For example: {{ path('blog_article', {slug: blog.slug}) }}. Shouldnt this look at the blog_article route and open the needed controller? Or it does not work like that?
If so, how to keep my pretty urls the way I want to?
change routing to
blog_article:
path: /blog/{slug}
defaults: {_controller: ApplicationEDBlogBundle:Blog:singleArticle}
product:
path: /cat/{category}/{name}
defaults: { _controller: MpShopBundle:Product:view}
and will be fine .
In your example {category} could be "blog" , so 1st route was matched .
It can also work if you change order ( product w'll be first). But it's not good solution (what if someone add category blog ?)
Nope, it doesn't work like that, i.e. your example path code doesn't mean that the routing should look for the blog_article route:
The twig path function just expands the route into the actual url (/blog/yourslug) and when actually accessing that url, the system makes the matching the other way around from the url to the route (matching to whichever happens to be the first of the above listed two route definitions).
If you have this kind of routes, the solution is to have them neatly in the correct order (most generic ones - the product in this case - being always the last), or if the ordering is not possible, you can try to solve this by placing some specific route requirements if applicable.

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I am developing a multi sub-domain web application in Symfony 2.
Subdomains:
admin.example.com is the main hosting site.
member.example.com is another sub-domain pointing to same source code.
As mentioned in the documentation here, I configured routing as below :
Parent Routing for member.example.com:
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resource: "#member.yml"
prefix: /
host: "member.example.com"
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**Now I have anoter route for admin.example.com : **
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$context->setHost('admin.example.com');
As it says in the Routing Documentation, passing true as the third parameter for the generate method will generate an absolute URL.
So in your case it would be...
$modLink = $this->get('router')->generate('admin_user_mod', [], true);
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admin_user_mod:
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I have a Symfony2 project with multiple brandings (subdomains). Each subdomain should use the same site functions and the same routes (with different hostname). Therefor I want to make the subdomain in the route path to a variable. Now it looks like:
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type: annotation
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defaults:
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I want something similar to:
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pattern: /my/documentation/product1.php
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Doku:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/routing/redirect_in_config.html
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Controller/RedirectController.php
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