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CodeIgniter 4… documentRoot is not in public… htaccess is not working

I am starting to dabble in CodeIgniter 4. Completed a simple app. On local, I have the documentroot setup to be /public/ where as on the product hosting environment, I am unable to set the documentroot to be in /public/.

Instead it is in /root.

So the structure is like so:

/root
../admin
../app
../system
../public
../.htaccess
../index.php

I’ve moved the htaccess from the public folder to the root level.

# Disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Rewrite engine
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Turning on the rewrite engine is necessary for the following rules and features.
# FollowSymLinks must be enabled for this to work.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On

    # If you installed CodeIgniter in a subfolder, you will need to
    # change the following line to match the subfolder you need.
    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase
    RewriteBase /public

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteCond %%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /public/$1 [L,R=301]

    # Rewrite "www.example.com -> example.com"
    RewriteCond %%{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteCond %%{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.+)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^ http://%%1%%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

    # Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
    # such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
    # request to the front controller, index.php
    RewriteCond %%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

    # Ensure Authorization header is passed along
    RewriteCond %%{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>

# Disable server signature start
    ServerSignature Off
# Disable server signature end

and the index.php in root file:

<?php

// Valid PHP Version?
$minPHPVersion = '7.2';
if (phpversion() < $minPHPVersion)
{
    die("Your PHP version must be {$minPHPVersion} or higher to run CodeIgniter. Current version: " . phpversion());
}
unset($minPHPVersion);

// Path to the front controller (this file)
define('FCPATH', __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

// Location of the Paths config file.
// This is the line that might need to be changed, depending on your folder structure.
$pathsPath = FCPATH . 'app/Config/Paths.php';
// ^^^ Change this if you move your application folder

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * BOOTSTRAP THE APPLICATION
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * This process sets up the path constants, loads and registers
 * our autoloader, along with Composer's, loads our constants
 * and fires up an environment-specific bootstrapping.
 */

// Ensure the current directory is pointing to the front controller's directory
chdir(__DIR__);

// Load our paths config file
require $pathsPath;
$paths = new ConfigPaths();

// Location of the framework bootstrap file.
$app = require rtrim($paths->systemDirectory, '/ ') . '/bootstrap.php';

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * LAUNCH THE APPLICATION
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * Now that everything is setup, it's time to actually fire
 * up the engines and make this app do its thang.
 */
$app->run();

In addition, the app config file:

<?php namespace Config;

use CodeIgniterConfigBaseConfig;

class App extends BaseConfig
{

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Base Site URL
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | URL to your CodeIgniter root. Typically this will be your base URL,
    | WITH a trailing slash:
    |
    |   http://example.com/
    |
    | If this is not set then CodeIgniter will try guess the protocol, domain
    | and path to your installation. However, you should always configure this
    | explicitly and never rely on auto-guessing, especially in production
    | environments.
    |
    */
    public $baseURL = 'http://sub.domain.com';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Index File
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Typically this will be your index.php file, unless you've renamed it to
    | something else. If you are using mod_rewrite to remove the page set this
    | variable so that it is blank.
    |
    */
    public $indexPage = 'index.php';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | URI PROTOCOL
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This item determines which getServer global should be used to retrieve the
    | URI string.  The default setting of 'REQUEST_URI' works for most servers.
    | If your links do not seem to work, try one of the other delicious flavors:
    |
    | 'REQUEST_URI'    Uses $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
    | 'QUERY_STRING'   Uses $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
    | 'PATH_INFO'      Uses $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']
    |
    | WARNING: If you set this to 'PATH_INFO', URIs will always be URL-decoded!
    */
    public $uriProtocol = 'REQUEST_URI';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Locale
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | The Locale roughly represents the language and location that your visitor
    | is viewing the site from. It affects the language strings and other
    | strings (like currency markers, numbers, etc), that your program
    | should run under for this request.
    |
    */
    public $defaultLocale = 'en';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Negotiate Locale
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | If true, the current Request object will automatically determine the
    | language to use based on the value of the Accept-Language header.
    |
    | If false, no automatic detection will be performed.
    |
    */
    public $negotiateLocale = false;

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Supported Locales
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | If $negotiateLocale is true, this array lists the locales supported
    | by the application in descending order of priority. If no match is
    | found, the first locale will be used.
    |
    */
    public $supportedLocales = ['en'];

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Application Timezone
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | The default timezone that will be used in your application to display
    | dates with the date helper, and can be retrieved through app_timezone()
    |
    */
    public $appTimezone = 'America/New_York';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Character Set
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This determines which character set is used by default in various methods
    | that require a character set to be provided.
    |
    | See http://php.net/htmlspecialchars for a list of supported charsets.
    |
    */
    public $charset = 'UTF-8';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | URI PROTOCOL
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | If true, this will force every request made to this application to be
    | made via a secure connection (HTTPS). If the incoming request is not
    | secure, the user will be redirected to a secure version of the page
    | and the HTTP Strict Transport Security header will be set.
    */
    public $forceGlobalSecureRequests = false;

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Session Variables
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | 'sessionDriver'
    |
    |   The storage driver to use: files, database, redis, memcached
    |       - CodeIgniterSessionHandlersFileHandler
    |       - CodeIgniterSessionHandlersDatabaseHandler
    |       - CodeIgniterSessionHandlersMemcachedHandler
    |       - CodeIgniterSessionHandlersRedisHandler
    |
    | 'sessionCookieName'
    |
    |   The session cookie name, must contain only [0-9a-z_-] characters
    |
    | 'sessionExpiration'
    |
    |   The number of SECONDS you want the session to last.
    |   Setting to 0 (zero) means expire when the browser is closed.
    |
    | 'sessionSavePath'
    |
    |   The location to save sessions to, driver dependent.
    |
    |   For the 'files' driver, it's a path to a writable directory.
    |   WARNING: Only absolute paths are supported!
    |
    |   For the 'database' driver, it's a table name.
    |   Please read up the manual for the format with other session drivers.
    |
    |   IMPORTANT: You are REQUIRED to set a valid save path!
    |
    | 'sessionMatchIP'
    |
    |   Whether to match the user's IP address when reading the session data.
    |
    |   WARNING: If you're using the database driver, don't forget to update
    |            your session table's PRIMARY KEY when changing this setting.
    |
    | 'sessionTimeToUpdate'
    |
    |   How many seconds between CI regenerating the session ID.
    |
    | 'sessionRegenerateDestroy'
    |
    |   Whether to destroy session data associated with the old session ID
    |   when auto-regenerating the session ID. When set to FALSE, the data
    |   will be later deleted by the garbage collector.
    |
    | Other session cookie settings are shared with the rest of the application,
    | except for 'cookie_prefix' and 'cookie_httponly', which are ignored here.
    |
    */
    public $sessionDriver            = 'CodeIgniterSessionHandlersFileHandler';
    public $sessionCookieName        = 'ci_session';
    public $sessionExpiration        = 7200;
    public $sessionSavePath          = WRITEPATH . 'session';
    public $sessionMatchIP           = false;
    public $sessionTimeToUpdate      = 300;
    public $sessionRegenerateDestroy = false;

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Cookie Related Variables
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | 'cookiePrefix'   = Set a cookie name prefix if you need to avoid collisions
    | 'cookieDomain'   = Set to .your-domain.com for site-wide cookies
    | 'cookiePath'     = Typically will be a forward slash
    | 'cookieSecure'   = Cookie will only be set if a secure HTTPS connection exists.
    | 'cookieHTTPOnly' = Cookie will only be accessible via HTTP(S) (no javascript)
    |
    | Note: These settings (with the exception of 'cookie_prefix' and
    |       'cookie_httponly') will also affect sessions.
    |
    */
    public $cookiePrefix   = '';
    public $cookieDomain   = '';
    public $cookiePath     = '/';
    public $cookieSecure   = false;
    public $cookieHTTPOnly = false;

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Reverse Proxy IPs
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | If your server is behind a reverse proxy, you must whitelist the proxy
    | IP addresses from which CodeIgniter should trust headers such as
    | HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and HTTP_CLIENT_IP in order to properly identify
    | the visitor's IP address.
    |
    | You can use both an array or a comma-separated list of proxy addresses,
    | as well as specifying whole subnets. Here are a few examples:
    |
    | Comma-separated:  '10.0.1.200,192.168.5.0/24'
    | Array:        array('10.0.1.200', '192.168.5.0/24')
    */
    public $proxyIPs = '';

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Cross Site Request Forgery
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Enables a CSRF cookie token to be set. When set to TRUE, token will be
    | checked on a submitted form. If you are accepting user data, it is strongly
    | recommended CSRF protection be enabled.
    |
    | CSRFTokenName   = The token name
    | CSRFCookieName  = The cookie name
    | CSRFExpire      = The number in seconds the token should expire.
    | CSRFRegenerate  = Regenerate token on every submission
    | CSRFRedirect    = Redirect to previous page with error on failure
    */
    public $CSRFTokenName  = 'csrf_test_name';
    public $CSRFCookieName = 'csrf_cookie_name';
    public $CSRFExpire     = 7200;
    public $CSRFRegenerate = true;
    public $CSRFRedirect   = true;

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Content Security Policy
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Enables the Response's Content Secure Policy to restrict the sources that
    | can be used for images, scripts, CSS files, audio, video, etc. If enabled,
    | the Response object will populate default values for the policy from the
    | ContentSecurityPolicy.php file. Controllers can always add to those
    | restrictions at run time.
    |
    | For a better understanding of CSP, see these documents:
    |   - http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-security-policy/
    |   - http://www.w3.org/TR/CSP/
    */
    public $CSPEnabled = false;

}

when going to http://sub.domain.com, i am getting the default controller and view rendering. However the CSS assets and JS assets that are linked: https://sub.domain.com/assets/css/style.bundle.css

are all going to a server error. the location of these files are actually in https://sub.domain.com/public/assets/css/style.bundle.css

but I am trying to avoid using /public/ in the url.

Any help or direction is appreciated.

RD

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Answer

Ideally, you should have all your folders at the same level as root. This is assuming that /root is the publically accessible directory.

In other words,

/admin
/app
/root
   .htaccess
   favicon.ico
   index.php
   robots.txt
   /assets
/system
/vendor
/writable

Note that there is no directory named “public”. Actually it’s used to be called public, but it has been renamed “root”. There is no requirement that it be named public, only that it is the directory your domain name points to.

You should be able to use all files as-distributed except for setting some things in appconfig

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