Routing To A Folder In Cakephp's App/Webroot - .htaccess

Question

I'm aware that there are a few questions on this subject already. I've trawled through them and can't make any of the proposed solutions work for me... maybe someone can help my specific problem?
I have a folder, parallax, in my app/webroot, containing index.html and associated files. This can be accessed just fine at /parallax/. However, if I try to access it at /parallax I get redirected to /app/webroot/parallax/, and ideally I'd like to suppress this behaviour.
Refactoring the whole thing as a CakePHP controller action isn't ideally something I want to get into (though if it might be simpler than I expect, let me know). The routes file doesn't as far as I know allow routing to a file in app/webroot.
The other port of call would seem to be the .htaccess file. I tried adding a rewrite rule:
RewritRule ^parallax$ parallax/index.html
or variations thereof, but the best I can get here is a page with broken images (whatever I'm ending up with, it doesn't seem to be able to find the images in the parallax/images subfolder any more).
Can anyone clear up my confusion and help me find the best route to /parallax giving the same result as /parallax/ does?

Answer 1

Please try the below .htaccess code in your root directory not in app directory.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
Rewriterule ^parallax/.*$ - [PT]
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
This should help you. What ever request start with parallax will be skipped by the .htaccess rule. And rest of the things will work as it is.

Answer 2

.htaccess root thanks to Anh Pham for this link it works perfectly http://www.balistupa.com/blog/2010/08/how-to-redirect-appwebrootblog-into-blog-wordpress-cakephp/
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foldername.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foldername.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 3

I tried to reproduce the situation but its working corretly for me. I'm using cakePhp 1.3 and both urls send me to index.html:
http://localhost:5013/parallax/
http://localhost:5013/parallax
My guess is that there's something weird on your .htaccess (the one located at /app/webroot/). Mine is:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Basically, it tells the server that if the requested url is not a file (!-f) nor a directory (!-d), it will redirect the whole url as a parameter to /webroot/index.php , so cakephp will parse the url and call the controllers and all that..
Hope this helps

Answer 4

You should be able to put the parallax folder with a static index.html inside the app/webroot folder and have it be accessible by default at the /parallax/ url.
If you use relative paths you can even have you img/css for that page local to the folder and skip the usual cakephp paths entirely. No htaccess needed.