For a bit of history - this is the first time I attempted to setup a test symfony project, just to have a play with it.
The symfony project was setup in the following location:
~/symfony_projects/myproject/
Now, with cpanel, the httpd.conf is automatically generated (but I'm sure you knew that), and it uses ~/public_html/ as the web root and splits it up by domain name (virtual hosts) - so for this example, lets say it's ~/public_html/example.com/.
So the symfony project is all setup now, the next problem was trying to figure out how to setup the server so it points to the /web part of the project - this is where I found it tricky.
I tried doing the following:
ln -sf ~/public_html/libs/Symfony/data/web/sf ~/symfony_projects/myproject/web/sf
ln -sf ~/symfony_projects/myproject/web/* ~/public_html/example.com
That unfortunately didn't work though. When trying to go to http://www.example.com it just gave me a 500 error.
Any other options here? Taking into consideration that I cannot modify the httpd.conf. And even if I could, it's auto-generated and would rather not (in cpanel).
* Update *
I just tried what was suggested by #Dan, but with the same issue - getting HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error). So, it looks like something else is the issue.
I checked my error_logs but didn't see anything useful there. Is there any other way I can check to see what the problem is?
* Another Update *
Just tried http://example.com/frontend_dev.php and it works perfectly - gives no errors at all, which makes it kind of hard to debug the production controller.
So the Development controller works flawlessly and the production is spitting out the 500 error - any ideas? :/
I just copy everything out of web/ (including css/, js/, etc. subfolders) one level higher, then edit the index.php/yourapp_dev.php files' require statements to reflect the change in path. Add some rewrite rules to forbid direct access to the rest of the directories and you're all set on servers where you can't change the document root.
If you look at the http.conf virtual host entry for the symfony project the last line in generally a commented out include statement. If you uncomment that line you add any extra virtual host configs you need into that file. Then just restart apache. Anything in the file will then be appended in place of the include statement.
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So I am trying to get Symfony working on my server by following these install instructions.
http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/installation.html#book-installation-permissions
I got to the part where I ran this command in console in the directory where I wanted the framework to be installed.
symfony new my_project_name
I then followed these instructions to set my web root directory to /web as I believe I'm supposed to do?
It installed all the files correctly since I can see them in the folder. I made sure to restart apache and I'm positive document root is in the correct location.
http://tecadmin.net/how-to-change-document-root-of-primary-domain-in-cpanel/#
Once I did this I was supposed to be able to test the installation, but nothing seems to happen except that 406 error?
This is the exact error I get.
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /app.php could not be found on this server.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I'm not sure what else to do.
Please note, that since I'm using CPANEL I can't change the virtual host configurations of apache if that is the issue, so I'm looking for a CPanel specific answer. Thank you!
Okay so I finally figured out what to do, I had 2 problems. Because I installed as the 'root' user I had to run the following command on the symfony installation.
chown -R devdistribution:devdistribution .
In my case, my username is devdistribution but you would just put your own. Make sure to do this on the top level not just the /web folder.
I knew this was one of the errors because the apache log said something along these lines
Mismatch between target UID (520) and UID (501) of file "/home/devdistribution/public_html/distribution_tech/web/app.php"
This fixed the 500 error, but not the 406. To fix the 406 error you need to login into WHM and type modsecurity to find it in the search field.
go to the configuration option for it, you will see this.
Rules Engine SecRuleEngine
This setting controls the behavior of the rules engine.
Process the rules.
Do not process the rules.
Process the rules in verbose mode, but do not execute disruptive actions.
Select 'Do not process the rules'. Then save at the bottom. This fixed the issue for me and I was able to see the opening symfony screen!
However, this I'm sure leaves security vulnerabilities now...so I still need help on the proper way to handle mod security with symfony in this case if anyone knows? I'll make a separate question for this.
Step 1:
Login to your cPanel account and start searching for the file manager icon under the files section.
Step 2:
As always, you need to make sure, you see the public_html directory. Depending on the web hosting you have, you may also see the home directory after opening the file manager.
Step 3:
Find the .htaccess file and right-click to edit.
Step 4:
After choosing an edit option, you see a popup asking to disable encoding if you wish. You have to click on the Edit button to continue.
Step 5:
On a new tab, you can see many rewritten rules. You have to add the code to the .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngineOff
SecFilterScanPOSTOff
</IfModule>
I am just starting to work with CakePHP3.0 and while following the 'Quick Start Guide' I came across a step that has me stuck.
The section labeled DATABASE CONFIGURATION has me create some MySQL tables (I copy pasted from the site) and then run the commands: bin/cake bake all bookmarks, bin/cake bake all users, and bin/cake bake all tags.
After running those three commands several files have been generated; the Models and Controllers associated with the tables I just created. However, the Views have not been created...By the way I am using Ubuntu 12.04
As suggested by the tutorial I checked my apache2/mods-enabled directory for the rewrite.load and it is there.
Has any else experienced this issue?
It is likely that I am making a simple mistake
This is the output when I ran bin/cake bake all bookmarks the first time:
As the tutorial suggested, if I receive a 404 page not found error I should make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled for apache2, also I noticed that it says to use http://localhost:8765/bookmarks since my web server is configured on port 80 I have been ignoring the port # suggested by the tutorial.
Here is a screenshot of my apache2/mods_enabled/: (rewrite.load is present)
Lastly, here is the data source that I have configured in /config/App.php:
It is beginning to appear that the problem is with my Apache configuration and the rewrite rules. I will investigate into this further.
Turns out that I was initially confused about what CakePHP3 was supposed to create and realize now that it was running as expected (see question above for output). One the proper DocumentRoot is set, if rewrite is not set up properly navigating to you page may begin a download of the file you mean to view instead.
The real problem was with my Apache configuration. These are the steps I followed to configure Apache 2.4 (after reinstalling Apache):
Add the new DocumentRoot in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Enable mod_rewrite: a2enmod rewrite
Restart Apache: service apache2 restart
After enabling rewrite your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ may look like this(notice rewrite highlighted):
Problem has been resolved. Thanks to this post!
#user1843159 - Thanks for pointing me toward the direction of Apache Configuration.
I can find dozens of articles on installing CakePHP in a sub-directory and getting it to appear in the root url. That is NOT what I am asking for. I rarely down-vote, but if you give that answer, I will down vote you.
I have CakePHP in my root directory on my hosting server. It's a clean Apache server instance... I think. I'm really not a server guy. I created a new account through WHM on Hostgator and have CakePHP sitting in the public_html.
However, there is no domain name associated with this server yet. The URL is like this:
http://123.456.0.0/~example/
And CakePHP gives me the following errors:
Error: ~exampleController could not be found.
Error: Create the class ~exampleController below in file:
app/Controller/~exampleController.php
I imagine there's some .htaccess configuration that makes it ignore that /~example in the URL. Can someone point me in the right direction, even if it's just the right page in the CakePHP docs?
By partially following the advice at http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/syl-via/2011/09/19/rewritebase_config_for_cake_installation_with_userdir_and_mod_rewrite I was able to make this work by adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root of the Cake install:
RewriteBase /~example
I put this after RewriteEngine on for it to work.
In other words, if your Cake install is at /home/example/ then it's the /home/example/.htaccess file that you'd change.
I didn't edit app/.htaccess or app/webroot/.htaccess because it seems to work without these files needing to be edited.
Please note that I tested this with the latest version of Cake (2.3.5) -- I don't know if it will work the same way in older versions.
I have a shared hosting account in which I want to install my symfony 1.4 and deploy and application. I bumped into some issues because of the inability to change the apache config on the production server.
the structure of my web server is:
hosting_account_name
html <--- public folder
I then moved all files in symfony local app folder to my hosting_account_name and put the web folder content in html
So i got the following structure:
hosting_account_name
apps
cache
config
data
html
css
js
index.php
.htaccess
frontend_dev.php
lib
log
plugins
test
and i added the line bellow to config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php
$this->setWebDir($this->getRootDir().'/www');
I have a couple of issues though:
1. when i access the frontend_dev.php no images are due to the fact that symfony expects some files to be under a sf/ folder. Should I move the files there?
2. Index.php gives an error. Even with display errors set to yes and 500 internal server error is presented.
Also i had to set my permissions to 777 on cache and log. Their are under the folder html so that's ok for security right?
First, you said that the "public" folder is html, but you used $this->setWebDir($this->getRootDir().'/www');. Is it html or www? (Just to make sure)
Then: setting the sf_web_dir should work like you expected, so that shouldn't throw any errors.
To link the /sf Symfony folder, you will need to add something to your apache configuration. As described on the first page of the Jobeet tutorial, you will need to add an Alias to the /lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf.
If you don't have access to the httpd.conf, you could also add this to your .htaccess.
777 for log and cache is ok. It's what the default project:permissions task does as well.
Oooops I did it again.
My site worked perfectly locally
My development machine is a windows WAMP2 setup
My server is a CentOS 5.5 APACHE 2.2 PHP5 seup
I'm getting a 404 on the codeigniter site that I've deployed, and I really can't make out what's wrong, so please help me find the error.
It's the root url. I haven't set up dns so it's just the ip address of the server. It was showing the standard apache page before I uploaded codeigniter. I've looked over the config file, and it looks ok. Could it be a file permissions error? i have set chmod o+rw in the whole /var/www/html dir. the error_log in the httpd shows nothing
I've tried testing if it was the mod_rewrite module, but I created a test directory with a .htaccess file with RewriteEngine ON that didn't give me an error, so that can't be it.
In codeigniter I've set the log_threshold to 4 in the config, but I don't get any log messages, so I can't really make out if it's a pre-> codeigniter error, but I really don't think it is, as it's loading my Error view, still Why isn't there any log being written, what's it about?
Any help would be extremely appreciated as I'm running on fumes to get this working...
Update
Thanks to #jondavidjohn I have discovered that hitting the controller directly IE:
http://addr/index.php/GeoController/markers/
Will provide me with a controller specific error saying:
unable to locate your model "modelname"
SOLVED
Thanks to #jondavidjohn, and #timdream for giving me the clues to solve this one. It was a naming problem, I had filenames that were camelcased, and they can only be small from what I understand now, so the ROUTE was innefective in that it lead to Site, but should've lead to site although I had a Site.php I had to change it and the route to site.php
make sure you have the correct settings in system/application/config/config.php.. pay special attention to
$config['base_url'] = "http://www.example.com";
Make sure you are putting in the root domain of your site, also check your routing config and make sure you have the correct default controller set in system/application/config/routes.php
I recently started using a fresh install of codeignitor 3.0 and had no problems on my dev server (Windows) then when I moved to my live server (Linux) I started getting a 404 error.
The reason for this is that in 3.0 you are meant to capitalise the first letter of your controllers/models and also the file name.
e.g.
class Test_model extends CI_Model {
Test_model.php
Hope this helps some people who end up here!
For reference:
http://www.codeigniter.com/userguide3/installation/upgrade_300.html
$config['uri_protocol'] could also play a part. It's default to AUTO, which looks for environment variable that contains the actual URL automatically.
I had a web app that fails when I switch to php-cgi from mod_php for my server. Changing the config to REQUEST_URI solves the issue. I found the valve by digging phpinfo() outputs, you could try to do that.
My first bet is that you were developing this and modified the .htaccess file.
HOWEVER, if you went from a Windows -> Linux system change (dev on Win, prod on nix) then you have to keep the Controller names in mind, if a file on windows was "Home.php", and you used "home.php" in the config as your default route, then it will fail.. as there is no "home.php" file.
Home.php != home.php
Linux is case sensitive. Check that out, it might be a simple thing but could cause snags.
Again I am just guessing due to lack of details.