Yii2: Remove controller from URL

Question

I am using the advanced template. I created all my actions on the SiteController, so all my urls are domain.com/site/something, and I need to remove the word "site" from the url so it will be domain.com/something.

I tried the following rules based on this question

'urlManager' => [
        'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
        'showScriptName' => false,
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        'rules' => array(
                '/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => 'site/<action>',
                '/<action:\w+>' => 'site/<action>',
                '/noticia/<slug>' => 'site/noticia',
        ),
    ],

also tried this based on this other question:

'urlManager' => [
        'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
        'showScriptName' => false,
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        'baseUrl' => 'http://localhost/websites/transcita/app/frontend/web',
        'rules' => array(
                [
                    'pattern' => '<action:\w+>',
                    'route' => 'site/<action>'
                 ],
                [
                    'pattern' => '<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>',
                    'route' => 'site/<action>'
                 ],
                '/noticia/<slug>' => 'site/noticia',
        ),
    ],

but neither is not working. I get a 404 when I type domain.com/something. I also tried without the first / and it didn't work either.

Any thoughts?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '16 at 10:51

9

Another way:

'rules' => [
    '<alias:\w+>' => 'site/<alias>',
],

answered Sep 07 '16 at 10:51

2

this way is better, because first answer gives 404 error for all other controllers (not SiteController) – Skav Dec 12 '17 at 12:39

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '16 at 17:45

7

Try with:

'urlManager' => [
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'enableStrictParsing' => false,
    'rules' => [

        // ...

        // last rule
        '<action:(.*)>' => 'site/<action>',
    ],
],

answered Sep 06 '16 at 17:45

Fabrizio Caldarelli

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THANK YOU! This worked perfectly! Would you happen to have a link where I can read up on the difference between \w+ and (.*), because that change did the trick. – Ian Mone Sep 06 '16 at 17:52
1

Here you can find excellent explaination of reg expr: https://regex101.com/ . \w+ matches any letter, number or underscore, instead .* maches zero or more charaters. Maybe your action are composed more than one word. – Fabrizio Caldarelli Sep 06 '16 at 18:05

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