Slim v2.6.2 render() Only Working For Index.html

1

I’m currently learning about the Slim framework over at TeamTreehouse.com, and ran into an issue that I haven’t been able to resolve.

At this point in the project, we have installed Slim via Composer and setup .htaccess and index.php files in our document root (which on my computer is /home/daniel/src/public_html/treehouse/build_websites_php/). In a templates folder we have index.html and contact.html. We then instantiate a new Slim object, call the get() method and then call render() to render the index.html and contact.html pages when the url is localhost/treehouse/build_websites/ and localhost/treehouse/build_websites/contact, respectively.

My index.html page shows up fine, but I get a 404 error (not through Slim, just the server’s default) when I try and visit the /contact url. Here are some specs from my system:

  • Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
  • Apache 2.4.18
  • Slim 2.6.2
  • PHP 7.0.8

Anything in my /home/daniel/src/public_html/ directory can be accessed by Apache, as I’ve run PHP scripts from in there for the past year.

I’ve tried the suggestions from here (and restarted the server after each update to conf.d or other files) and have had no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’ve only been using PHP/Ubuntu/Apache for about a year, so I’m probably missing something obvious!

Here is the index.php file:

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$app = new \Slim\Slim();

$app->get('/', function () use($app) {
  /* When using render(), the url localhost/treehouse/build_websites_php/ to 
  gets you the home page. */
  $app->render('index.html');
});

/* This SHOULD bring up the contact page at url 
localhost/treehouse/build_websites_php/contact, but it doesn't! */
$app->get('/contact', function () use($app) {
  $app->render('contact.html');
});

$app->run();
2

What does your .htaccess file look like? Is Apache setup to allow the .htaccess file with an allow override? See Apache configuration in the Slim docs.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

And do you have something like this somewhere?..

AllowOverride All
3

Thank you very much for the quick response!

Here is my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

# Some hosts may require you to use the `RewriteBase` directive.
# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the
# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.
#
# RewriteBase /home/daniel/src/public_html/treehouse/build_websites_php/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Here is what I believe is the relevant portion of my apache2.conf file

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does
# not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share and /var/www.
# The former is used by web applications packaged in Debian,
# the latter may be used for local directories served by the web server. If
# your system is serving content from a sub-directory in /srv you must allow
# access here, or in any related virtual host.
<Directory />
	Options FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride None
	Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
	AllowOverride None
	Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /home/daniel/src/public_html>
	Order allow,deny	
	Allow from all
	Require all granted
</Directory>

I tried adding AllowOverride All to the last directive and then I wasn’t able to access PHP files from the server at all and got a 500 error instead of a 404 error.

Here are some other .conf files associated with Apache:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	#ServerName www.example.com

	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	 DocumentRoot /var/www/html

	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined


	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

/etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	#ServerName www.example.com

	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /home/daniel/src/public_html

	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

Does this information help?

4

Solved the issue on StackOverflow, thanks for the help though!

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