Couldn't get Step 06 to work

[zethon]

Struggled with Part 6 for a while because it kept telling the class Example\Controllers\Homepage could not be found. Took me about two hours to figure out I needed to run composer update.

This is not immediately obvious and should be mentioned in the tutorial.

[ivanfranco502]

Thanks! I was struggling with the same issue, luckily I saw your issue. After a while, I realized my problem was the working directory where I was running the server.
You should use public directory to run php -S localhost:8000 instead of root directory.

[Wondarar]

At step6, when running running the site on root, e.g my example is on testsite2.loc, I get:

Am I supposed to see it at this step still?
I bet not, I don't know to which step go back and debug.

[Wondarar]

an on /public I still get the 404....?

[ellisgl]

Need a .htaccess file in your public folder.

[Wondarar]

Sorry I don'T get it. When I put the index.php in the root and echo a simple "hello world" all is fine.
Why do I need the htaccess now? And what should I put into htaccess?

[SharakPL]

@Wondarar you need to start your server in the public so either:

php -S localhost:8000 -t public/

from the root of your project or directly from public folder:

cd public
php -S localhost:8000

I see you created virtual host testsite2.loc so make sure it points to public folder, not the root of your project.

.htaccess is not required :)

[Wondarar]

Ok, since not required I skip that.
Here's the testsite2.loc.conf file and in yellow what I added today (which is obsolete then anyways).

Where do I set the pointer to public? Is it within this conf file? Is it in line 12, adding \public ?

If I understand it correcty, $routeInfo should NOT give me an empty array?
But since it keeps being empty it correctly resolves to the 404.

And here's the Route.php

[SharakPL]

Your config is invalid. <Directory> block should be inside <VirtualHost>. Here's an example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # first VH is default for apache - do not change it
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName mysite.test
	DocumentRoot "/path/to/mysite/public"
	<Directory  "/path/to/mysite/public">
		Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Require local
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then make sure /etc/hosts file has valid IP pointer for mysite.test. Here's well written tutorial

Leave this first <VirtualHost> untouched. It's default for the apache. Just add another below.

[Wondarar]

Working now 🥇
Thank you! :)

[SharakPL]

Glad I could help :)
Issue resolved so you can close it now.