UrlManager rule for text ids?

Question

Yii

Hey!
Yii2 project. I create a link like this:

<a href="<?= Url::to(['category/view', 'alias' => 'the-test-alias.html'])?>" title="">Some link</a>

As a result, a link of the form is formed:

http://mywebsite.com/ru/category/view?alias=the-test-alias.html

Question: how to write a rule in UrlManager so that the link is formed like this:http://mywebsite.com/ru/the-test-alias.html

Answer 1

'<alias:\w+>' => 'category/view',
UPD: according to your comment, the rule does not work because you incorrectly form the URL
Why is there html? Are you trying to add the html suffix to the link? then you should use the suffix parameter in UrlManager
For example:

'UrlManager' => [
    'suffix' => '.html'
]

Url::to(['category/view', 'alias' => 'the-test-alias'])