How to install Symfony framework on shared hosting account? - frameworks

Question

I have a questions while install Symfony framework on my shared hosting account.(hostmonster)
I can access SSH now, but I can not access httpd file.
so, I do not know how to set below setting using command line.
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<Directory "/$data_dir/symfony/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myapp.example.com
DocumentRoot "/home/steve/myproject/web"
DirectoryIndex index.php
Alias /sf /$data_dir/symfony/web/sf
<Directory "/home/steve/myproject/web">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
**
,
I tried this,
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chmod 777 /home1/myaccount/php/data/symfony/web
chmod 777 /home1/myaccount/public_html/symfony/web
**
But nothing changed.
when access mydomain.com, it show like this
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
/*
* This file is part of the symfony package.
* (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien.potencier#symfony-project.com>
*
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php');
include(sfCoreAutoload::getInstance()->getBaseDir().'/command/cli.php');
Please advice me how should I do .?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to enable mod_rewrite on your apache instance. If you cannot access the httpd configuration file, then you should create a .htaccess file in your web root.
Here is an example .htaccess file typical with symfony installs:
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# uncomment the following line, if you are having trouble
# getting no_script_name to work
#RewriteBase /
# we skip all files with .something
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \..+$
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
#RewriteRule .* - [L]
# we check if the .html version is here (caching)
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# no, so we redirect to our front web controller
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

If you are seeing
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
/*
* This file is part of the symfony package.
* (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien.potencier#symfony-project.com>
*
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php');
include(sfCoreAutoload::getInstance()->getBaseDir().'/command/cli.php');
when you head to yourdomain.com, you simply do not have PHP enabled. You may not even have it installed. A quick check is to create a file called info.php and put the following as it's contents
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Upload info.php and navigate to yourdomain.com/info.php. If you are seeing the code you just entered you do not have php installed or enabled on your server. If you see a massive list of configuration items than I'm wrong.