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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsUnable to set up route on localhost
Hi everyone,
I've looked and looked again at how to set up this MVP for this course. It works on my web server https://landing.jonniegrieve.co.uk/slimmin/hello/Jonnie (as of today 18th March) but not on localhost. I don't quite know how Alena opened the localhost browser either by URL or from the terminal
Maybe I'm supposed to keep the project at the localhost root for my local server (I use XAMPP, btw) but this doesn't work for me in my setup.
I know that my local server is working. It picks up the "page not find" error before I try to request the route. I don't even need to use a port number
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
<?php
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$app = new \Slim\App;
$app->get('/hello/{name}',
function (Request $request, Response $response, array $args) {
$name = $args['name'];
$response->getBody()->write("Hello, $name");
return $response;
}
);
$app->run();
3 Answers
jamesjones21
9,260 PointsThis would be the same for laravel, inside the xampp folder, you should see htdocs? Is the project inside of there?
Ksenia Breitenmoser
20,874 PointsHey Jonathan! How did you solve the problem? I am using virtualbox with Debian on it. I set up a port 8099 on my localhost, and did everything what Alena did, but I keep getting the 404 error. Thanks a lot
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsHi Ksenia,
From my point of view, it depends on where your project is located within the root of your local server. That was the main issue with me, I was several layers inside the directory tree.
What worked for me was something like this
RewriteRule ^ path/to/project/index.php [QSA,L]
Make sure there's a space between RewriteRule the ^ and the file path. Good luck.
Ksenia Breitenmoser
20,874 PointsThanks a lot, Jonathan, though didn't seem to help me :( Did you change anything in RewriteBase / ?
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsNot really, I left that alone. Keep at it, I'm sure you'll find the answer.
Is it possible there's something you need to do in your code as well?
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Pointsit is, but something like 4 directories inside that folder.. :-)
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsI've got it! I knew I had to account for the place of the project in the filepath for my .htaccess file but nothing I tried yesterday seemed to work. Looks like I found the path I need now. Thanks for trying! :)