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September 5th, 2009CakePHP on Zeus
February 28th, 2009Recently I have been developing a site using CakePHP. Its a great framework, has been a good learning curve too. For a simple brochure site Cake would be overkill, but for a site with database information it would be great. Any way my post is not about Cake or how good/bad it is… I was merely sharing what I had to do to get Cake to work on hosted Zeus server.
Now most people would know that Zeus servers do not read .htaccess files so I had to overcome the rewrite issue.
I initially followed this post, but I required some query string goodness on my search pages. I then found this post for CodeIgniter another PHP framework, which uses similar traits to Cake.
Combining the two rewrite scripts I came up with one that would work for my Cake application using query strings.
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RULE_0_START:
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# get the document root
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map path into SCRATCH:DOCROOT from /
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# initialize our variables
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set SCRATCH:ORIG_URL = %{URL}
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set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = %{URL}
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# see if theres any queries in our URL
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match URL into $ with ^(.*)\?(.*)$
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if matched then
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set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = $1
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set SCRATCH:QUERY_STRING = $2
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endif
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RULE_0_END:
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RULE_1_START:
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# prepare to search for file, rewrite if its not found
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set SCRATCH:DOCROOT . /app/webroot/%{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}
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# check to see if the file requested is an actual file or
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# a directory with possibly an index. don’t rewrite if so
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if not exists then
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set URL = /app/webroot/index.php?url=%{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}
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goto QSA_RULE_START
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else
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set URL = /app/webroot/%{URL}
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endif
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# if we made it here then its a file or dir and no rewrite
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goto END
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RULE_1_END:
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QSA_RULE_START:
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# append the query string if there was one originally
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# the same as [QSA,L] for apache
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match SCRATCH:ORIG_URL into % with \?(.*)$
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if matched then
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set URL = %{URL}&%{SCRATCH:QUERY_STRING}
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endif
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goto END
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QSA_RULE_END:
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Hope this helps…
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