How to Generate URLs from the Console

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Unfortunately, the command line context does not know about your VirtualHost or domain name. This means that if you generate absolute URLs within a console command you'll probably end up with something like http://localhost/foo/bar which is not very useful.

To fix this, you need to configure the "request context", which is a fancy way of saying that you need to configure your environment so that it knows what URL it should use when generating URLs.

There are two ways of configuring the request context: at the application level and per Command.

Configuring the Request Context Globally

To configure the Request Context - which is used by the URL Generator - you can redefine the parameters it uses as default values to change the default host (localhost) and scheme (http). You can also configure the base path (both for the URL generator and the assets) if Symfony is not running in the root directory.

Note that this does not impact URLs generated via normal web requests, since those will override the defaults.

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# app/config/parameters.yml
parameters:
    router.request_context.host: 'example.org'
    router.request_context.scheme: 'https'
    router.request_context.base_url: 'my/path'
    asset.request_context.base_path: '%router.request_context.base_url%'
    asset.request_context.secure: true

3.4

The asset.request_context.* parameters were introduced in Symfony 3.4.

Configuring the Request Context per Command

To change it only in one command you need to fetch the Request Context from the router service and override its settings:

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// src/AppBundle/Command/DemoCommand.php

// ...
class DemoCommand extends ContainerAwareCommand
{
    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $router = $this->getContainer()->get('router');
        $context = $router->getContext();
        $context->setHost('example.com');
        $context->setScheme('https');
        $context->setBaseUrl('my/path');

        $url = $router->generate('route-name', ['param-name' => 'param-value']);
        // ...
    }
}
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