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Dan Goodspeed
Dan Goodspeed

Reputation: 3590

Symfony directory structure on cPanel site

I'm building my first Symfony site that will eventually be hosted on a shared server/cPanel site.

I'd like to have my Symfony/web content separate from the server files, though the way Symfony is structured, all the Symfony files are outside the public_html folder. But with a cPanel setup, there's already a lot of files and folders outside the public_html folder (mail, logs, .bashrc, .cpanel, www alias... and a dozen others).

I worry that it feels messy if I put Symfony mixed in with all these files and there could be a conflict. I would rather it be in a directory by itself. The best idea I've had so far is to make a subdomain to host Symfony where I can manually choose the web folder, and then just do redirects to the subdomain.

What do others do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 519

Answers (1)

Dan Goodspeed
Dan Goodspeed

Reputation: 3590

This is how I decided to do it, and it seems like it will work pretty well. I just use the regular cPanel public_html as the document root, upload the whole Symfony contents to that directory, but then add an .htaccess file with the contents:

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

And that protects the main Symfony contents from public access while at the same time putting it all in a directory by itself. It seems to work so far. If anyone has a better idea, I'm open to it!

Upvotes: 1

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