.htaccess for cakephp

It seems to be a bug in cakephp. In cakePHP 1.3+ the themed view assets have been moved from app/webroot/themed/themeTitle to app/views/themed/themeTitle/webroot.

According to CakePHP 1.3 documentation you are able to restore the old place (i.e. in the main webroot) of the themed static assets by creating app/webroot/theme/themeTitle

Linking to static assets is slightly different from 1.2. You can still use the existing app/webroot/themed and directly link to those static files. It should be noted that you will need to use the full path to link to assets in app/webroot/themed. If you want to keep your theme assets inside app/webroot it is recommended that you rename app/webroot/themed to app/webroot/theme. This will allow you to leverage the core helper path finding. As well as keep the performance benefits of not serving assets through PHP.

So, what I have done for solve this issue is to copying all files in app/views/themed/slate/webroot to app/webroot/theme/slate

The following screen shot is from FireFox Firebug that shows an image file get the expire after one year in seconds:

Finally after 1 week (between other tasks) I solved this!

Here is my solution:

/public_html/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

    # http|https www to non-www
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http%1://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # redirect all subdomains
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.(.*)$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,L,NS]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.(.*)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.(.*)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

/public_html/sub1.domain.com/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/%{HTTP_HOST}
    RewriteRule ^%{HTTP_HOST}(.*)$ /$1

    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
    RewriteRule ^$ %{HTTP_HOST}/app/webroot/    [L]
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
    RewriteRule (.*) %{HTTP_HOST}/app/webroot/$1 [L]

    RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

/public_html/sub1.domain.com/app/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

/public_html/sub1.domain.com/app/webroot/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{HTTP_HOST}/index.php [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

And finally the most important!

/public_html/sub1.domain.com/app/webroot/index.php

On the bottom: $Dispatcher = new Dispatcher(); changed to: $Dispatcher = new Dispatcher('');