.htaccess - Symfony: htaccess to hide app.php or app_dev.php

Question

I know this has been asked many times, but something strange is happening to me. Apache DocumentRoot is pointing to symfony/web/ and this is my .htaccess inside web/ dir:

DirectoryIndex app_dev.php
#DirectoryIndex app.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
    RewriteRule ^app.php(/(.*)|$) %{CONTEXT_PREFIX}/$2 [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule .? - [L]


    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app_dev.php [QSA,L]
    #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)(.+)::2$
    RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]
    RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}app.php [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_alias.c>
        RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ /app.php/
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

Well, the thing is www.example.com/route1/ is working and www.example.com/route2/ is throwing an error:

Oops! An Error Occurred The server returned a "404 Not Found". Something is broken. Please e-mail us at [email] and let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. We will fix it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

While www.example.com/app_dev.php/route2/ is working ok (also www.example.com/app_dev.php/route1/)

Help?

Update. Cache clear in prod throws this error (I never tried before, I'm working on dev):

[DoctrineCommonProxyExceptionUnexpectedValueException] The type hint of parameter "userRoles" in method "addRole" in class "MyProjectPanelBundleEntityUser" is invalid.

[ReflectionException] Class MaycolBlogBundleEntityRole does not exist

Answer 1

This is the .htaccess that worked for me:

DirectoryIndex app.php
#DirectoryIndex app_dev.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect to URI without front controller to prevent duplicate content
    # (with and without `/app.php`). Only do this redirect on the initial
    # rewrite by Apache and not on subsequent cycles. Otherwise we would get an
    # endless redirect loop (request -> rewrite to front controller ->
    # redirect -> request -> ...).
    # So in case you get a "too many redirects" error or you always get redirected
    # to the startpage because your Apache does not expose the REDIRECT_STATUS
    # environment variable, you have 2 choices:
    # - disable this feature by commenting the following 2 lines or
    # - use Apache >= 2.3.9 and replace all L flags by END flags and remove the
    #   following RewriteCond (best solution)
    RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
    #RewriteRule ^app_dev.php(/(.*)|$) %{CONTEXT_PREFIX}/$2 [R=301,L]
    RewriteRule ^app.php(/(.*)|$) %{CONTEXT_PREFIX}/$2 [R=301,L]

    # If the requested filename exists, simply serve it.
    # We only want to let Apache serve files and not directories.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule .? - [L]


    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app_dev.php [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]

    # The following rewrites all other queries to the front controller. The
    # condition ensures that if you are using Apache aliases to do mass virtual
    # hosting, the base path will be prepended to allow proper resolution of the
    # app.php file; it will work in non-aliased environments as well, providing
    # a safe, one-size fits all solution.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)(.+)::2$
    RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]
    #RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}app_dev.php [L]
    RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}app.php [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_alias.c>
        # When mod_rewrite is not available, we instruct a temporary redirect of
        # the startpage to the front controller explicitly so that the website
        # and the generated links can still be used.
        #RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ /app_dev.php/
        RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ /app.php/
        # RedirectTemp cannot be used instead
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>