ROUTING.md

Routing

This application uses Front Controller pattern to process HTTP requests. Therefore, all requests should be recieved by single PHP file. The instructions here will explain how to tell your web server to send HTTP requests to your PHP front controller file.

Built-in PHP web server

Navigate your terminal to the /public directory and run the following command to start a local web server.

php -S  localhost:8000 -f index.php

Nginx

This is an example nginx virtual host configuration file. It listens for HTTP connections on port 80. This example assumes that you're running PHP-FPM on port 9000. You should update root server_name error_log and access_log to your own values.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name student-list.local;

    error_log /var/log/nginx/students.error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/students.access.log;

    root /var/www/student-list/public;
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php {
        try_files $uri =404;
	    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
	    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
	    fastcgi_index index.php;
    	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
	    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Apache HTTP Server

Your .htaccess file in public directory should contain the following rules

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Make sure that mod_rewrite is installed with your Apache configuration. Also make sure that AllowOverride is set to All in your apache virtual host configuration.

Lighthttpd

Your lighthttpd configuration should contain the following line

url.rewrite-if-not-file = ("(.*)" => "/index.php/$0")