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.symfony/routes.yaml

SymfonyCloud allows you to define how incoming requests are routed to project’s applications.

Routes are defined in the .symfony/routes.yaml file and describe how an incoming HTTP request must be processed by SymfonyCloud.

The .symfony/routes.yaml YAML file is composed of a list of routes defined by route patterns and their associated configuration. Here is an example of a basic .symfony/routes.yaml file:

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"http://{all}/":
    type: redirect
    # Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
    to: "https://{all}/"

"https://{all}/":
    type: upstream
    # Route requests to the "app" application
    # ("app" is the name defined in .symfony.cloud.yaml)
    upstream: "app:http"

This configuration makes SymfonyCloud redirect all HTTP-only requests to HTTPS and forward HTTPS requests to the “app” application. For now, let’s say that {default} makes SymfonyCloud match the project’s default domain for incoming requests.

Route Patterns

The configuration can contain several route definitions. The identifier of each route is used as a pattern that should match the beginning of the URL for the route to be used.

If more than one route match an incoming request, the most specific definition (the one with the longest size) is used:

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"http://{all}/":
    type: upstream
    upstream: "app:http"

"http://{all}/login":
    type: redirect
    to: "https://{all}/login"

"https://{all}/":
    type: upstream
    upstream: "app:http"

This example makes the website available over both HTTP and HTTPS except for HTTP requests to /login that are redirected to HTTPS.

Two special placeholders are available to use in route patterns:

  • {all} will match any domain (think about it like .* for Regexes)
  • {default} will only match the default domain of a project.

Placeholders can be used in any part of the host name, for example https://{default}/ or https://www.{default}/.

Any number of domains can be configured on a project but only one of them is set as the default domain using symfony domain:default example.com. If a project has no domains configured, SymfonyCloud provides you with a default development one.

Note

When using the {all} placeholder, creating routes to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS is optional: if you create a single HTTPS route, SymfonyCloud automatically creates a HTTP one redirecting to the HTTPS version.

Multiple Applications

SymfonyCloud supports running multiple applications per project; in this configuration the .symfony/routes.yaml file defines how to route requests to different applications:

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"http://{all}/":
    type: redirect
    to: "https://{all}/"

"https://{all}/":
    type: upstream
    # Route requests to the "app" application
    # "app" is the name defined in .symfony.cloud.yaml
    upstream: "app:http"

"https://{all}/blog":
    type: upstream
    # Route requests to the "blog" application
    # "blog" is the name defined in another .symfony.cloud.yaml
    upstream: "blog:http"

Wildcard Routes

SymfonyCloud supports wildcard routes so that multiple subdomains can be defined as any other routes; routed to an application or redirected to another one.

To create a wildcard route, prefix the route with a star (*). For example *.example.com matches any HTTP requests to www.example.com, blog.example.com, or us.example.com once the wildcard domain (*.example.com) is added to the project:

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"https://{all}/":
    type: upstream
    upstream: "app:http"

"https://*.{default}/":
    type: upstream
    upstream: "app:http"

Caution

Please note that when using wildcard routes, SymfonyCloud can not automatically provision SSL certificates on your behalf. As a consequence, to protect traffic with SSL, generate or buy a wildcard SSL certificate and configure the project domains to use it.

Absolute Routes

A route can also be defined as an absolute URL. For example:

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"https://{all}/":
    type: upstream
    upstream: "app:http"

"https://blog.example.com/":
    type: upstream
    upstream: "blog:http"

If a request matches several routes, the ones defined with absolute URLs take precedence over the generic (ie. using placeholders) ones.

Development Environments

For each development environment, a unique subdomain is generated using information such as the project and environment IDs. This subdomain matches {default} and {all} in your routes.

For routes using absolute hostnames, SymfonyCloud uses those as subdomains of the domain generated specifically for this environment.

Get the generated URLs with symfony urls.

Route Configuration

Each route has the following properties available for configuration:

  • type defines how requests are be processed. Possible values are:
    • upstream: requests are routed to an application.
    • redirect: requests are redirected to another destination.
  • upstream (required when type equals to upstream) specifies the name of the application; as defined in .symfony.cloud.yaml and followed by :http; used to serve requests.
  • to (required when type equals to redirect) defines to which URL incoming requests should be redirected to.
  • cache controls caching behavior of the route.
  • ssi enables or disables Server Side Includes support; see SSI for more information.
  • redirects controls partial redirect rules associated with the route.

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