web deployment - How can I deploy Symfony in a subdirectory?

Solution:

You're sort of setting yourself up for hardship if you are deploying a Symfony app to a host that does not allow SSH - for instance if you want to rebuild your cache you will have to manually nuke yourapp/cache/* dirs?

To answer your question directly, if your Symfony project is in/www/test/ then Symfony's web directory is/www/test/web so you need to use a url like:

http://foo.com/test/web

For completeness, try accessing the explicit url -/test/app.php and/test/app_dev.php respectively. If you receive a Symfony error page in either case you know you are on the right path at least.

Edit #1

Something to point out: your project and configuration files and may be readable with this deployment scenario - which is not ideal - so you might want to check this and take some actions to secure this directory if possible. I appreciate that this is probably a test deployment so it might not be a big deal, but it's always good to keep mindful of security :)

Edit #2

Okay YMMV with this, I am no.htaccess expert but you could deploy your symfony app to/www/symfony/ and rewrite the/test URI to show/symfony/web/ instead; e.g:

RewriteEngine On
# rewrite all `/test/*` uris to `symfony/web`
RewriteRule ^test(.*)$ symfony/web/$1 [L,QSA]
# direct access to /symfony dir is a 404
RewriteRule !^symfony/web/$1 - [R=404]
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This should serve all applicable uri requests (to/test and/symfony/web itself) to Symfony, while restricting direct access to the symfony core files.

Haven't tested this, so how this will play with Symfony's own.htaccess is not something I can answer off the top of my head.

Solution:

How about using.htaccessfile to achieve your goal. As far as I understand your problem your symfony app works IF you access it via web folder for examplefoo.com/test/web

try using the following code in your.htaccess file which will sit at the root of yourtest directory

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !web/
RewriteRule (.*) /web/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
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please replace thedomain.com with your domain name.