versioning of static asset files with .htaccess

[frankitoy]

Hi, Im trying to incorporate silex into my project and Im mixing the framework with other tech which are node and grunt.

Now I hit a brickwall trying to sort how to support file versioning for my asset files, as mentioned I am leaning on using grunt to make automated testing faster and favourable, instead of using the silex assetic provider which basically just sorting out the minification process.

Now when I try to build versioning using grunt the generated link reference on twig template will be like js/main.12345.js but theoritically it should make a symbolic link to js/main.js, now it conflicts with silex since all requests is redirected to web/index.php and the reference to this js/main.12345.js file is considered as not found.

I added some line on .htaccess with this RewriteRule ^(scripts|css|images)/(.+).(.+).(js|css|jpg|gif|png)$ $1/$2.$4 [L] but it still doenst work.

For referrence http://www.particletree.com/notebook/automatically-version-your-css-and-javascript-files/

[davedevelopment]

I think you'll need to provide more information, but it doesn't sound like a silex problem anyway. Grunt should be placing the file in your web root, in which case the usual

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Should take care of things.

[GromNaN]

I'm working on a similar system (with gulp) and I'm using this Apache configuration:

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/css/(.*)_(\d*).css$       /css/$1.css
  RewriteRule ^/js/(.*)_(\d*).js$         /js/$1.js
  RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)_(\d*).(\w+)$  /images/$1.$3

  # Put the Silex catch-all after the rewrite rule
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

[fmarcelo]

Hi,

Heres my .htaccess configuration:

RewriteEngine On #RewriteRule ^(.+).(\d+).(js|css|png|jpg|gif|html)$ $1.$3 [L] RewriteRule ^(js|css)/(.+).(.+).(js|css)$ $1/$2.$4 [L] ``` RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^ index.php [L] ```

@GromNaN still I have issues because I have subdirectories inside the js directories for angular templates so I am not sure if your code snippet will actually support the needs of my app.

[terite]

This is not a bug in Silex, and should be closed.

The problem is most certainly a misconfiguration of Apache, or a misunderstanding of the folder structure in place. If you make a request to /js/main.js in your browser, it will look for the file at web/js/main.js. If that file does not exist, it will trigger web/index.php.

If it does exist, it will serve that file without involving web/index.php at all.