Web server rewrite rules for using klein PHP router

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URL-rewriting for klein PHP router

Why rewrite URLs? Check Wikipedia

Apache

Make sure AllowOverride is on for your directory, or put in httpd.conf

# Apache (.htaccess or httpd.conf)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . /index.php [L] 

nginx

# basics
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

If you're trying to route requests for an app that is not in the document root, invoke klein's dispatch line like this:

<?php
   define('APP_PATH', '/your/webapp');
   dispatch(substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], strlen(APP_PATH)));
?>

Then in your nginx.conf file, use:

location /your/webapp/ {
   try_files $uri $uri/ /your/webapp/index.php?$args;
}

Don't do this.

# nginx
if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite . /index.php last;
}

See nginx pitfalls.

More Reading

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
• http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule
• http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
• klein.php - simple, fast router for PHP

Note: This gist originally here, from chriso

I've never actually used the PHP dev server, but per their docs it looks like basic URL rewriting is already built in:

If a URI request does not specify a file, then either index.php or index.html in the given directory are returned. If neither file exists, the lookup for index.php and index.html will be continued in the parent directory and so on until one is found or the document root has been reached.

In case of PHP built-in server on local dev mode, what can i do?

For anybody wondering, this is the way:
$ php -S localhost:3001 -t ./ ./index.php

Assuming index.php is your bootstrapping file. Run this command from your root dir.