How can I allow access to my .well-known/ directory with CakePHP?

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I have the CakePHP framework installed on my www.vimundos.com linux server, before installing CakePHP in my public_html, I issued a SSL certificate successfully using Let's Encrypt which created a .well-known/acme-challenge/ directory containing some content crucial to the certificate.

Of course after installing the framework, my certificate was removed. CakePHP is not allowing direct access to the directory, I tried using the Route::redirect() feature to map .well-known/* urls to the directory, but i only get a ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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Not much to do with CakePHP here. You need to update your .htaccess file (if using Apache) or nginx config not overwrite ./well-known/acme-challenge URL. Something like here: How do I ignore a directory in mod_rewrite?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Feb 22 '17 at 10:37

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 15:35

It's implicit from what's in the question that you have this:

public_html
    composer.json
    .htaccess
    index.php
    ...
    webroot
        .htaccess
        index.php
        css
        img
        js
    .well-known

Whatever version of CakePHP you are using, nothing outside the webroot directory is supposed to be directly accessible, and as such neither is the .well-known folder.

There's a very simple solution, just move it into the webroot directory:

public_html
    composer.json
    .htaccess
    index.php
    ...
    webroot
        .htaccess
        .well-known <- moved
        index.php
        css
        img
        js

Note that "webroot" is supposed to be the apache document root if at all possible (a production style install), not a folder in the document root (a development style install).

How can I allow access to my .well-known/ directory with CakePHP?

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