Path issue (404) on some routes using PHP builtin webserver

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Hello,

My Slim is working well in my development env (a virtual host in my apache config).
But trying to run it using the PHP webserver gives strange results on some pages :confused: I’ll try to explain what happens.

I run php -S localhost:8888 from my public directory, that contains the index.php main file.

I’ve a page that should display a map, and have to load CSS, JS and images.
I’ve a route for the page itself, and another one to load resources, since they’re out of the public directory.
The URL http://localhost:8888/plugins/maps/carte show the page, but resource calls, like http://localhost:8888/plugins/plugin-maps/res/images/maps.png don’t work.

I have a 404 error on this last call; that come directly from the webserver and not from Slim.
But if I change the URL to http://localhost:8888/index.php/plugins/plugin-maps/res/images/maps.png (note the add of /index.php); I can get the image!

Well, that could be logic; but I do not understand why some routes works well without index.php and others don’t… Could someone explain what I’m missing?

For reference, the resource route is defined here:

Thanks!

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I have a similar situation but I’m getting the 404 error only for one of my 8 routes. It is a POST and it works perfectly in my localhost apache server but it won’t on my hosting account. I’m using Slim v2 though. Here’s a link to my post in case you want to check it out.

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Hey there,

So, this is a PHP embed webserver issue: there is a simple automatic rewrite that is active; which explains why in the page URL I do not have the index.php. But if there is any dot in the URL; the rewrite will not work…

So, every URL like /path/to/image.png or /path/to/lib-1.2.3/myfile will not work!

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This looks similar to a question in an earlier thread:

http://discourse.slimframework.com/t/routing-with-floats-in-the-url/1195

You can provide a router script when starting the PHP built-in web server to make sure index.php is called.

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Hello,

Yes, I know this is possible; we’ve used that on another project to make automated testing to work.

I’ve tried with current issue… But this did not solved the initial problem, I kept lost with the automatic redirection stuff anyways :slight_smile: