Ver 4.1.2 - Phalcon is trying to load subdirectory as Controller

[RickyJaff]

Hi,

Installed phalcon 4.1.2 in windows using Uniform Server on PHP 7.4 . I am not able to get it work.
I have installed in /www/phalcon4

For testing with "hello world" code ,

On loading "http://localhost/phalcon4" , I get following error:
Exception: Phalcon4Controller handler class cannot be load

If I try same Hello world code on Phalcon 3.4 (installed on PHP 7.1) then it works.

I see similar problem faced by someone here : https://forum.phalcon.io/discussion/20211/project-in-a-subdirectory and there was no solution and he was using some "WORKAROUND".

In my case, since I have some experience with Phalcon in past (worked on 3.4 in on mid-sized project), all I can see is that Phalcon is thinking "subdirectory" from URL as controller and trying to find controller for it and hence error.

Here is my www/phalcon4/.htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteRule  ^$ public/    [L]
	RewriteRule  (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Here is .htaccess for www/phalcon4/public

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?_url=/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

In public/index.php baseUri is set as following:

// Setup a base URI
$di->set(
    'url',
    function () {
        $url = new UrlProvider();
        $url->setBaseUri('/phalcon4/');
        return $url;
    }
);

In past, I have worked on dev setup in subfolder many times, but that was with phalcon 3.x , tried 4.1.2 yesterday first time and still stuck in this problem.

In short, my question is :

How to make Phalcon 4 to work in subdirectory ?

Just in case, phalcon is working on my PHP :

[BeMySlaveDarlin]

First of all, thank you for report.
There are few ways to fix this, but as is see, you are using some custom server with built-in apache webserver.

1. Using apache you can trim phalcon4 part of request url in line i marked next:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?_url=/$1 [QSA,L] # here
</IfModule>

2. Or trim /phalcon4 part of request url in index.php:

    //default
    echo $application->handle($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])->getContent();

    //fixed
    $requestUri = str_replace('phalcon4', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    echo $application->handle($requestUri)->getContent();

Editing url service wont help, because that affects only generated urls you will render later.

[RickyJaff]

Thanks for the reply, following hack works as now Phalcon is not seeing that subdirectory in request and hence not considering it.

    //fixed
    $requestUri = str_replace('phalcon4', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    echo $application->handle($requestUri)->getContent();

However, this was never the case with 3.x version, should be count this as bug ?

[BeMySlaveDarlin]

The way 3.x routes request - is obsolete and wrong.
New logic is not a bug.