CodeIgniter Route works over CIFS mount but not with local files - php

Question

our dev environment at work uses a single centos machine with apache/php that serves different virtual hosts for both CIFS mounted and local directories. our application is built using CodeIgniter 2.0
we recently made a change to our Routes that is working fine for the virtual hosts serving the mounted drives, but the routes cannot be resolved for local files, resulting in a 404.
$config['base_url'] = "http://production.host.com"; // the production value of $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] essentially
routes:
$route['companyone'] = 'sso/platformsso/requestgenericsso/companyone';
$route['companyone/(:any)'] = 'sso/ptlatformsso/requestgenericsso/companyone/$1';
this works for the following scenario:
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:80>
ServerAdmin me#host.com
DocumentRoot "/var/mnt/a"
ServerName "a.tmbc.com"
ErrorLog logs/a.error.log
Alias ssaml /var/simplesamlphp/www
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/var/mnt/a">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Directory populated using CIFS mount: mount -t cifs //1.2.3.4/a /var/mnt/a -o rw,username=un,password=pwd,uid=48 --verbose1
but does not work for this scenario:
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:80>
ServerAdmin me#host.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/b"
ServerName "b.host.com"
ErrorLog logs/b.error.log
Alias ssaml /var/simplesamlphp/www
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/var/www/html/b">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Directory populated using SVN checkout: svn checkout file:///var/svn/repo/trunk /var/www/html/b
.htaccess:
AddType text/x-component .htc
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Restrict unused HTTP methods
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^(GET|POST|HEAD)
RewriteRule .* - [R=405,L]
# Forces SSL
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^_sys.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^_app.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).(pdf|exe|doc|mp4)$ /externaldownload/?fileLocation=$1.$2 [R,L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
any ideas of why this is so?

Answer 1

I think I understand your issue here. Problem seems to be on (:any) your route rule.
$route['companyone/(:any)'] = 'sso/ptlatformsso/requestgenericsso/companyone/$1';
A URL with companyone as the first segment of URL and anything for the second segment will be remapped to sso/ptlatformsso/requestgenericsso/companyone/$1
It seems like codeigniter passing $1 as a variable to the function companyone which means you are actually matching any route there to forced to rewrite.
How about condensing those to route rules and make a
$route['(.*)'] = "sso/ptlatformsso/requestgenericsso/companyone/$1";
or have only one rule there for routes such as
$route['companyone/(:any)'] = 'sso/ptlatformsso/requestgenericsso/companyone/$1';