By default, CakePHP takes full “control” of all URLs at the point where it is installed. Sometimes that behaviour is not desired. For example, my hoster defines an url like mydomain.com/stats where the statistics are available. If I install CakePHP in the root, this url no longer works resp. causes an error in CakePHP. The solution is to modify the .htaccess file in app/webroot. The original .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
And after the modification:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
</IfModule>
# Begin CakePHP
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
The added rule is rather simple: if the url starts with /stats stop the interpretation of the .htaccess file. That’s it.
Rahhhh I tried so much to make this work !! thanks !!
I had that problem with my phpmyadmin directory …
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Hmm..Didn’t need that in DH, stats/ and dh_phpmyadmin/
@oth: Hm, I’m also on DH, but for some reason I have to modify the htaccess file in a way similar to the one shown above to access the statistics.
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I had the same problem like oth’s and I solved it by modifying not /app/webroot/.htaccess but rather /.htaccess (the htaccess file in the project root).
THANKSS SOOO MUCH for this post, Ive been going crazy with this for the last few days.
@Walid: I am glad it was useful for you :)
As with kiri- I had to amend the /.htaccess at the root of my cake app to get /awstats to work not /app/webroot/.htaccess
Thanks for the information though as all my cakephp apps have been without awstats for months :o)
@Paul: I think it depends on the type of installation you have: if you have a production setup, i.e. the document root of your virtualhost points to app/webroot, then only the .htaccess file from app/webroot is used.
Anyway, I’m glad this article was helpful for you.
Thx for the reply, I am not in production mode hence my issue.
Your post was v useful, although I have a slight problem I wonder if you could cast your eye over.
I’m only able to login to AwStats using the above method if I have config.debug set to 1 or higher. Once I have authenticated I can set dbug back to 0 and click through as many stats pages as I like so I guess it is something to do with AwStats authentication process.
Could you give me some pointers as to what I should be checking?
Thanks, Paul
@Paul: I’m sorry, but right now I don’t have an idea why the debug setting of your Cake app influences the behavior of AwStats…
No problem, was worth asking :o)
Anyone else having problems where Cake throws 401 errors despite the above rewrite rules if debug is set to 0?
I now have a few sites live and this is becoming a major issue now that I can’t resolve :(
@Paul: Maybe you will have more luck in the CakePHP irc channel resp. in the Google group…
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