Running Zend Framework in a subfolder - Problems with default controller - zend-framework

Question

I am starting a Zend application and I need to put it in a sub folder like this:
/subfolder
application
public
...
I did the following:
I set the base url in application.ini:
resources.frontController.baseUrl = "/subfolder"
I moved the .htaccess from the public folder directly into /subfolder, while changing the htaccess as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ public/index.php [NC,L]
That's all I did. And everything works as expected. I can add controller blog with action view and can access it by calling:
/subfolder/blog/view
the url view helper and stuff work right too. The only thing that does not work is the default controller. So when I enter:
/subolder/
I get 403 (forbidden). If I enter
/subfolder/index
...it works. What am I missing?!
Thanks in advance!
teebee

Answer 1

you do not need to make any change in your zf public folder, just create an .htaccess file into the "/subfolder" directory with the following lines
# Rewrite rules
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) ./public/$1

Answer 2

Replace
RewriteRule ^.$ public/index.php [NC,L]
with
RewriteRule ^.$ http://addressto/index.php [R=302,NC]
or
RewriteRule ^.*$ /public/index.php [NC,L]
i'm not sure if putting ZF folders other than public into publicly accessible folder is right.It will impose your site on security flaws. You must put ZF'S public folder' contents into your server`s public folder and put other folders into a non-publicly accessible folder.If you need more that one instance of your ZF application you may use Zend module system.Please refer to zend online documentation for more details.