symfony2 fosuserbundle login from browser? - symfony

Question

I have used symfony up until 1.4 and I'm now picking it up from 2.8. Things seemed to be a lot easier back then. All I want is to create a user from the browser. I seem to have succesfully installed symfony as I get a welcome message in my browser. I seem also succesfully have installed fosuserbundle, as I got a database success message on the command line. Now I want to register a user, but I get 404's when I go to http://localhost/app.php/register or to http://localhost/register. The "register"-route is mentioned at http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/FOSUserBundle/index.html
Of course, this is working: http://localhost/app.php/
The tutorials seem to assume you know a lot about symfony, but this should be something all new users want to use?

Answer 1

in Symfony 2:
app.php runs the production environment
app_dev.php runs the development environment
If you don't like this approach you have 2 solutions:
Rename app_dev.php to index.php in development and point your .htaccess to it
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
Create an index.php file and rely on environment variables to determine your application environment, something like this:
defined('SYMFONY_ENV') || define('SYMFONY_ENV', (getenv('SYMFONY_ENV') ? getenv('SYMFONY_ENV') : 'prod'));
switch (SYMFONY_ENV) {
case 'prod':
require __DIR__ . '/app.php';
break;
case 'dev':
case 'staging':
case 'test':
require __DIR__ . '/app_dev.php';
break;
default:
header('HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error');
exit('Improper SYMFONY_ENV set. See ' . basename(__FILE__) . ' for more information.');
}
you can set your environment variable in the .htaccess like this
SetEnv SYMFONY_ENV development