Web Server Configuration Examples
Apache (1 & 2) Example
To enable the pretty URLs, the .htaccess file inside the webroot directory must be read by Apache. You need only set AllowOverride All in the Apache configuration file like so:
<Directory "/path/to/lightvc-skeleton-app/webroot">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>I prefer to setup port-based virtual hosts on my development machine. The following example sets up a port-based virtual host, with .htacess support, for port 8000. This means if the site is setup on the local machine it can be accessed by visiting http://localhost:8000/.
Listen 8000
NameVirtualHost *:8000
<VirtualHost *:8000>
DocumentRoot "/path/to/lightvc-skeleton-app/webroot"
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/path/to/lightvc-skeleton-app/webroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
# Allow .htaccess files
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
References
Lighttpd Example
Lighttpd will not read the .htacess file packaged with LightVC's skeleton app, so you'll have to add to the configuration file. The tricky part is that you'll have to manually specify which files and directories are not supposed to be parsed by LightVC. This is different from the Apache/.htaccess solution which automatically loads files that exist in the file system, otherwise control is passed to LightVC.
The following example shows how to ensure common files and folders like favicon.ico, robots.txt, images, css, and js work correctly in Lighttpd.
# /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/(css|images|files|js)/(.*)$" => "/$1/$2",
"^/(robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)$" => "/$1",
"^/([^?]*)(\?(.*))?$" => "/index.php?url=$1&$3"
)