Comments on: CakePHP in a subdirectory; no trailing slash

By: Kobyn

Kobyn — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:55:04 +0000

This works for me but I lose all my CSS and javascript. I appreciate any help.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:09:51 +0000

Just because Jeff’s site has been restructured and his posts are gone:
If you’ve ever run CakePHP on Apache 1.3.x in a subdirectory, most likely you’ve come upon a “Bad Request” error when you failed to append the trailing slash on your subdirectory. Here’s a hack to solve your mod_rewrite woes:

Edit the .htaccess file in your subdirectory and add the line containing you_subdir_here. That should do it. You should only have to modify the base .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule your_subdir_here$ /your_subdir_here/ [L]
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

This was his original post. It works where no other tricks worked.

By: Jun

Jun — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:14:33 +0000

The solution works for me, but another problem occurred.

This time:
OK
http://www.example.com/sub/
http://www.example.com/sub

NG
http://www.example.com/sub/action/
http://www.example.com/sub/action

Then I fixed .htaccess in sub, like,

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^sub$ sub/app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_URI} !^sub$
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

I use CakePHP 1.3.4, Apache/1.3.4 and PHP 5.2.14

Thank you and hope this helps someone.

By: Drew G

Drew G — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:16:04 +0000

Thanks Curtis! Your solution worked for me.

By: Betim

Betim — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:48:04 +0000

I use cpanel and I did all your steps but it didn’t wok for me unfortunately so I get the same error:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@example.info and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

please can you hel me further on this. I did put my files to a folder below the root. example.com/myfiles

By: Tiggr

Tiggr — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:25:09 +0000

The first solution, that works for me!

Thank you very much!

By: Jeff Loiselle

Jeff Loiselle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:18:06 +0000

I wrote a different hack for this as well. http://jeff.loiselles.com/wordpress/?p=22

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:05:38 +0000

This works for me but I lose all my CSS. Any ideas why?

By: curt

curt — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:15:41 +0000

403 Errors are usually related to your file permissions and/or your Apache configuration. Based on this Wordpress post about mod_rewrite and 403's, I suggest you try adding Options +FollowSymlinks to your .htaccess or to your virtual host config in httpd.conf.

By: Jeff Day

Jeff Day — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:59:24 +0000

That worked out smashingly on the local copy, but now I tried it out on our server and it starts throwing 403 errors for anything on the site (even pages that aren’t in the admin directory). Any ideas on what might be causing the problem?