Zend MVC - htaccess redirect - zend-framework

Question

All,
My Zend framework Application structure is like this:
billingsystem
-application
-design
--css
--struct.css
--icons
--styles
--images
--js
--common
--thirdparty
-public
--index.php
--.htaccess
-library
-- Zend
My Apache VHost is like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#billingsystem.localhost
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/billingsystem
ServerName billingsystem
ErrorLog logs/billingsystem.localhost-error.log
CustomLog logs/billingsystem.localhost-access.log common
<directory /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/billingsystem>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
My .htaccess in public folder is like this:
RewriteEngine on
# The leading %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} is necessary when used in VirtualHost context
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
If I browse to http://billingsystem, it shows the apache directory path on the browser. If I go to http://billingsystem/public, the application executes code on the web page. Is it possible to create or modify .htaccess file such that, when a user browses to http://billingsystem, it should redirect the browser to http://billingsystem/public and execute the code instead of showing the directory structure?
Also, how can I redirect the user to "public" directory when he tries to access any folder through the browser?

Answer 1

I just went through something like this on a site. My solution was that I needed to use two .htaccess files on the domain. One in the root level of the site and another in the public folder.
So, the one at the root of the domain looks like this:
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#Zend Rewrite Rules
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [NC,L]
AddHandler php5-script .php
Within the public folder I have the following rules in place:
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [NC,L]
This seems to work well to get all content trafficking through the Zend framework.
Hope this is helpful.
- liam

Answer 2

To directly answer your question you can place a .htaccess directly in the billingsystem folder with a rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [NC,L]
However, your setup should look more like the following:
File System
billingsystem
-application
-design
-public
--index.php
--.htaccess
-library
-- Zend
Virtual Host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#billingsystem.localhost
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/billingsystem/public
ServerName billingsystem
ErrorLog logs/billingsystem.localhost-error.log
CustomLog logs/billingsystem.localhost-access.log common
<directory /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/billingsystem/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
Now the question that remains is that i know you have stuff in you design directory that aparently needs to be web accessible... Can you elaborate on the directory structure in design so that we can figure out what you need to do (if anything) to properly access the various types of files contained in it?