Need help writing an htaccess, in cpanel hosting that helps me access my symfony 2 application without any /web or folder names in url

Question

I have a c-panel shared hosting. Now, the docroot for the sitename.com resides at public_html folder. Say, I have a symfony application installed in the same. So, the web folder for my symfony application is at public_html/symfony/web/ . If I want to try it, I should hit sitename.com/symfony/web/app_dev.php .

Here's the tricky part: I am trying to use htaccess somehow to get sitename.com/hi to invoke sitename.com/symfony/web/app_dev.php/hi internally. The constraints are, I cannot modify my httpd-vhosts.conf to update my hosting directory. It might not be a practical thought, still, would love to figure out this, just as some food for thoughts.

Answer 1

try this in your public_html

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ web/$1 [L] 

Answer 2

Edit .htaccess in public_html folder and add rewrite directives to pointing your request to wanted foder /symfony/web/ :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sitename.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !symfony/web/
RewriteRule (.*) /symfony/web/$1 [L]

DirectoryIndex app.php

If you are using /symfony/web/app.php as front controller don't forget to add directive DirectoryIndex .