Take over the “control” of some urls from CakePHP

By default, CakePHP takes full “control” of all URLs at the point where it is installed. Sometimes that behaviour is not desired. For example, my hoster defines an url like mydomain.com/stats where the statistics are available. If I install CakePHP in the root, this url no longer works resp. causes an error in CakePHP. The solution is to modify the .htaccess file in app/webroot. The original .htaccess file:

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

And after the modification:

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

The added rule is rather simple: if the url starts with /stats stop the interpretation of the .htaccess file. That’s it.

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7 Comments

fraisouille

Posted August 17, 2006 at 6:16 pm | Permalink

Rahhhh I tried so much to make this work !! thanks !!
I had that problem with my phpmyadmin directory …
oth

Posted August 25, 2006 at 1:37 pm | Permalink

Hmm..Didn’t need that in DH, stats/ and dh_phpmyadmin/
cakebaker

Posted August 26, 2006 at 8:41 am | Permalink

@oth: Hm, I’m also on DH, but for some reason I have to modify the htaccess file in a way similar to the one shown above to access the statistics.
korki

Posted September 14, 2006 at 9:41 am | Permalink

what to do if it is not working? I tried couple ways to make it working bot I failed
cakebaker

Posted September 14, 2006 at 6:08 pm | Permalink

@korki: What is the problem?
korki

Posted September 15, 2006 at 9:11 pm | Permalink

it’s not working, i have a statistics from my hosting provider and i did exactly what you wrote and it’s not working
cakebaker

Posted September 18, 2006 at 9:45 am | Permalink

@korki: It is possible that you have to add additional rules. My hosting provider is Dreamhost, and I need two rules to access the statistics:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$

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