Routing in Kohana in development

Question

I am setting up my new web application using the Kohana framework.

I am using MAMP so the app is located in the htdocs folder, with this structure:

---htdocs
 --foo
  -application

I am getting this error when viewing http://localhost:8888/foo/

Kohana_HTTP_Exception[ 404 ]: The requested URL foo was not found on this server.

In the bootstrap.php the route is the default Kohana one

Route::set('default', '(<controller>(/<action>(/<id>)))')->defaults(
array(
    'controller' => 'welcome',
    'action'     => 'index',
));

Answer 1

Check your application/bootstrap.php file for:

Kohana::init(array(
    'base_url'   => '/foo/',
));

This is required for Kohana to understand it's in /foo/ folder.

UPD The requested URL foo was not found on this server exception message is generated if no action_<action> method was found in Controller.

If no Route was found Unable to find a route to match the URI: exception message is genereted.

Not shure Routing works as expected, but it works ;).

So check your Controller file for apropriate action method.

Answer 2

This is would be my prefered folder structure for a Kohana application under /foo:

├─┬─ htdocs
│ └─┬─ foo
│   ├─── .htaccess
│   └─── index.php
└─┬─ kohana
  ├─┬─ application
  │ ├─── bootstrap.php
  │ └─── etc...
  ├─┬─ modules
  │ └─── etc...
  ├─┬─ system
  │ └─── etc...
  ├─── index.php
  ├─── install.php
  └─── etc...

htdocs/foo/index.php:

<?php

require '../../kohana/index.php';

htdocs/foo/.htaccess:

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Installation directory
RewriteBase /foo/

# Protect hidden files from being viewed
<Files .*>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny From All
</Files>

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

In kohana/application/bootsrap.php set 'base_url' to foo:

Kohana::init(array(
        'base_url' => '/foo/',
        'index_file' => NULL,
));

If you want to run kohana/install.php create htdocs/foo/install.php and require '../../kohana/install.php';

This way you keep your htdocs clean. If your live server would ever stop processing PHP files for some reason the only thing people will get to see is a require to Kohana's index.php.

The RewriteCond for the application, modules and system folders is not needed.

Turning on maintenance mode is very easy.