How to define the application boot file in htaccess

Question

OK, the question might look a bit over discussed but unfortunately I couldn't find a good answer for myself.

How to define a boot file for my web application in .htaccess that will run every time a request to my website is made? ZF uses application/index.php to define all global variables like: APPLICATION_ENV , include_path() etc. WordPress does this to load the necessary theme.

Answer 1

Here's what I have in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

But I'm not sure how good this is: I think there may be cases accounted for improperly.

Answer 2

Say you want everything to be routed through /boot.php , then you'd do one of the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/boot\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /boot.php [L]

or

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /boot.php [L]

You can pass additional parameters to the boot.php either through the _SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable or through the query string:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /boot.php?path=$1 [L]