"Object Not Found!" OSX, Silex and XAMPP development environment - php

Question

I have been struggling with setting up a PHP/MySQL environment all day and thought I would finally ask for help.
I have XAMPP up and running. In order to work in my preferred directory I've updated /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf with:
User MY_USERNAME
...
DocumentRoot "/Users/PATH/TO/WORKING/DIR/web"
<Directory "/Users/PATH/TO/WORKING/DIR/web">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
#Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
# XAMPP
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
#AllowOverride None
# since XAMPP 1.4:
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Require all granted
</Directory>
Otherwise my httpd.conf settings are the XAMPP defaults. In my web dir, I have index.php:
<?php
require_once __DIR__."/../vendor/autoload.php";
$app = new Silex\Application();
$app->get("/", function () {
return "Hello World";
});
$app->get("/test", function () {
return "Success";
});
$app->run();
?>
If I go to localhost, I get the expected "Hello World." However, if I go to localhost/test I get:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
Apache/2.4.23 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2h PHP/5.6.24 mod_perl/2.0.8-dev Perl/v5.16.3
This is a much simplified example, but illustrates the problem.
I've scoured the Google results for this error, but none of the recommended suggestions have helped:
Lots of people suggest I update .htaccess, but I don't know where that is in XAMPP or where I should create it or what I should put in it or what it is.
Recommendation of changing AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in httpd.conf didn't seem to work. (I reverted this back to the default settings after confirming that it didn't help)
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks for your time!
SOLUTION
I had created .htaccess in /Users/PATH/TO/WORKING/DIR/todo where I needed to put it in /Users/PATH/TO/WORKING/DIR/todo/web where I was pointing XAMPP to. Then inside of .htaccess I put the stuff Silex told me to put in there: http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/master/web_servers.html

Answer 1

.htaccess needs to be at the root of your web application, so in web. Create it if it doesn't exist. It should contain what's indicated here http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/master/web_servers.html
AllowOverride All is indeed needed but if you don't have any .htaccess file in your web app folder, there's 0 chance it's gonna work.