Docker Container Routing not working [SOLVED myself]

Hello In the video "Make A Router" https://laracasts.com/series/php-for-beginners-2023-edition/episodes/15 I struggle to get the routing to work for the URLs other than "/". I get

Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

Does this have sth to do with apache?

My docker compose

version: "3.8"

services:
  php:
    image: php:8.2-apache
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    volumes:
      - ./:/var/www/html

// this is index.php
<?php

require "functions.php";

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if ($uri === '/') {
    require "controllers/index.php";
} else if ($uri === '/about') {
   require "controllers/about.php";
} else {
    http_response_code(404);
    require "controllers/404.php";
}

//this is about.php
<?php

$heading = "Welcome to About";

require "views/view.about.php";

//this is the nav partial section
<li class="nav-item">
    <a class="nav-link <?= urlIs('/') ? "active" : "" ?>" aria-current="page" href="/">Home</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
    <a class="nav-link <?= urlIs('/about') ? "active" : "" ?>" href="/about">About</a>
</li>

larsb-dev

7 months ago

Level 6

After almost 1 hour of trying I asked GPT and found out that I need .htaccess if I use Apache

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# If the request is not for a valid file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all other requests to index.php
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

also, mod_rewrite needs to be enabled as well as .htaccess allowed to override settings. Therefore, I created a Dockerfile

FROM php:8.2-apache

# Enable Apache mod_rewrite
RUN a2enmod rewrite

# Allow .htaccess to override settings
RUN sed -i 's|AllowOverride None|AllowOverride All|' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

The new docker compose file is now using the Dockerfile to build the image

services:
  php:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    volumes:
      - ./:/var/www/html

docker compose up -d --build

Glukinho

7 months ago

Level 30

Print $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] at the end if your index.php and you will see what is actually comes to this variable, after that you'll know what is the problem:

print_r($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

die();

larsb-dev

7 months ago

Level 6

The problem was that a2enmod rewrite wasn't enabled inside the apache image. It had nothing to do with my router or PHP code.

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