I am trying to get the base URL for the project in Yii 2 but it doesn't seem to work. According to this page you used to be able to do:
Yii::app()->getBaseUrl(true);
In Yii 1, but it seems that that method in Yii 2 no longer accepts a parameter?
I've tried doing it without true, such as:
Yii::$app->getBaseUrl();
But it just returns empty.
How can you do this in Yii 2?
To get base URL of application you should use yii\helpers\Url::base()
method:
use yii\helpers\Url;
Url::base(); // /myapp
Url::base(true); // http(s)://example.com/myapp - depending on current schema
Url::base('https'); // https://example.com/myapp
Url::base('http'); // http://example.com/myapp
Url::base(''); // //example.com/myapp
Url::home()
should NOT be used in this case. Application::$homeUrl
uses base URL by default, but it could be easily changed (for example to https://example.com/myapp/home
) so you should not rely on assumption that it will always return base URL. If there is a special Url::base()
method to get base URL, then use it.