Yii and .htaccess file on production server - .htaccess

Question

I am new to yii and have some problem in configuring .htaccess file on production server.
On localhost :
Location of Application : /www/connect_donors/
Default URL that yii provides is,
http://localhost/connect_donors/index.php?r=controllerId/functionName
We used the urlManager in /connect_donors/protected/config/main.php to configure the SEO friendly url's..
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>'
Now the URL that was working was
http://localhost/connect_donors/index.php/controllerId/functionName
Then I used the .htaccess file to remove index.php from the above URL.
Location of .htaccess is : /connect_donors/.htaccess
Following is .htaccess file,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /connect_donors
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
URL Chenged to :
http://localhost/connect_donors/controllerId/functionName
Everything working fine and awesome.
But yesterday I uploaded the application on production server.
On Production Server
Everything remained same only I had to change the .htaccess file.
The .htaccess file on server is,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
Now the following url:
http://donorsconnect.com/
loads the home page of server properly.
But,
http://donorsconnect.com/profile
redirects again to home page.
NOTE : There is no session set on the "profile" controller.
class ProfileController extends CController
{
public function actionIndex()
{
$this->render('index');
}
}
I tried lot of things, changing the .htaccess file to different codes. but none helped me.
Any help is appreciable.
Solution
I finally got the solution and the mistake I had done.
My Components had a request array containing baseUrl.
'components'=>array(
...
'request' => array(
'baseUrl' => 'http://donorsconnect.com',
...),
Due to this it was not loading. I did not find the real reason for that.
But after removing that 'request' array, its loading fine.
Check link,
http://donorsconnect.com/profile

Answer 1

You should not hide index.php like this, read carefully : http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.url#hiding-x-23x
You should set showScriptName to false in your main config :
'urlManager'=>array(
.....
'showScriptName'=>false,
.....
),
And your .htaccess should look like this :
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php