Apache PHP project root handler / front controller pattern

Solution:

For this sort of thing I place an.htaccess file in the root of the application:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d  #Optional: Only if it's not a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  #Only if it's not a valid file
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
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This passes in the remaining portion of the url as$_GET['q'], and preserves any other parameters as well.

You'll need to make suremod_rewrite is enabled in Apache, and AllowOverride is set toall in your sites-enabled.

Solution:

What you are looking for is to implement a front controller
http://www.sitepoint.com/front-controller-pattern-1/

To do so you need to use mod_rewrite to force all .php requests to go to your front controller.

The following can go in your .htaccess or apache config (httpd.conf)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ project_root/index.php
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Solution:

You don't need to use mod_rewrite to implement a front-controller pattern, as suggested in the other answers. Apache mod_dir provides theFallbackResource directive. For example:

FallbackResource /project_root/index.php
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This states that for any request that would normally trigger a "404 Not Found", internally rewrite the request to/project_root/index.php instead.

This is equivalent to the mod_rewrite solution in @rmcfrazier's answer.

Reference:

• https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_dir.html#fallbackresource