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If you are having problems with custom URLs in Zend Framework – you’re not alone.

Recently I was rewriting one of my websites using ZF. The site is old, well ranked in search engines. In a situation like this you don’t really want to change URL structure. So i started to play with Apache rewrite rules and got stuck.

The problem is, that by default HTTP request object is using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] which means that even after setting rule like

RewriteRule ^articles/(.*)$ articles/view/url/$1 [L]

won’t work, because $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] remains unchanged.

To fix this, I’ve changed Http.php in library/Zend/Controller/Request/ and on line 391(should be the same if you are using same version as me, or look for public function setRequestUri($requestUri = null) ) and replaced

389:            if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) { // check this first so IIS will catch
390:                $requestUri = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
391:            }elseif (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
394:                $requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
395:            }elseif (isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'])) { // IIS 5.0, PHP as CGI

with:

389:            if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) { // check this first so IIS will catch
390:                $requestUri = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
391:            }elseif(isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])){
392:                     $requestUri = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
393:            }elseif (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
394:                $requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
395:            } elseif (isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'])) { // IIS 5.0, PHP as CGI

It’s a quite dirty hack because you have to change core files and need to remember that before updating ZF to a new version, but it does the job.

If you know a better solution – please let me know!

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