How to change base URL http://Domain/ProjectName/web/index.php to http://Domain/ProjectName in yii2

Question

How to change base url : http://Domain/ProjectName/web/index.php to http://Domain/ProjectName in Yii2.

Answer 1

You should enable pretty url in app/config/main.php (in advanced template) of /web.php in basic template

 $config = [
    //...
    'components' => [
        'urlManager' => [
            'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
            'showScriptName' => false,
            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        ],
        //...

for apache add this to your ProjectName/web/.htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /ProjectName/ 
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php?r=$1 [L,QSA] 

see this for more Enable clean URL in Yii2

Answer 2

Let say you have following directory structure:

/root
|
|--/logs // or any other folder
|--/html <-- this is where DOMAIN.com is pointing
   |
   |--/ProjectName
      |
      |--/assets
      |--/web
      |--// and other folder

what you can do is move your project folder outside of the html. then copy only the web folder of your app inside your html folder and rename it to ProjectName (or any other). now your folder structure should look something like this:

/root
|
|--/logs // or any other folder
|--/html <-- this is where DOMAIN.com is pointing
   |
   |--/ProjectName
      |
      |--/assets
      |--/css
      |--/index.php <-- EDIT this one
      |--// and other files you had in web folder
|--/ProjectName
   |
   |--/assets
   |--/web
   |--// and other folder

finally open the index.php (file pointed above) and replace following lines:

require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');

$config = require(__DIR__ . '/../config/web.php');

with this:

$project_path = __DIR__ . '/../../PojectName';

require($project_path . '/vendor/autoload.php');
require($project_path . '/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');

$config = require($project_path . '/config/web.php');

that's it. now you can access your application at: http://DOMAIN/ProjectName

hope that helps. if not let me know in the comment.