I am under the impression that any files placed in the webroot/ folder of a plugin in CakePHP 3 should be served automagically. However, I have not been able to get a file to be served from that folder...
I have created an example project
https://github.com/CakePHPKitchen/CakePHP-Plugin-Webroot-Issue
In the example project, I have baked a plugin named Elite and inside the plugins/Elite/src/webroot I have placed a text file named bingo.txt
To reproduce the issue
Clone the repository above
Execute the command bin/cake server -p 8675
Visit http://localhost:8675/bingo.txt
View Missing Bingo Controller Error
My Question is, how do I retrieve bingo.txt?
Do I have to set a setting somewhere to enable that webroot folder?
Make sure the plugin is loaded in your config/bootstrap.php
Plugin::load('Elite');
Then link to the webroot of the plugin with localhost:8675/elite/bingo.txt
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I have a symfony2 project that somehow was running fine while it was outside the public_html directory, but now it's not working (the path is not allowed anymore, apparently).
Now I need to move the symfony2 directory into public_html, but when I do, the website is still not working (the page is blank).
I modified app.php so the include path is the correct one, and I also modified the projectConfiguration class so it has the right WebDir. What am I missing?
alternatively, how can I make it work outside the public_html directory?
for the record, I'm completely new to symfony.
The cache was the culprit.
I cleaned symfony's cache (removed all the contents residing in the cache folder) and the website came back to normal.
thanks to fos.alex for the comment/answer.
Can anyone help me,
i developed my application with Cakephp 2.1, and it works fine on my development server running Centos 5.7. My challenge came when i transfer my application to the lice server to be accessed by on LAN. It states that a missing controller which is not available in my whole application, for example, i named my folder which contains my application and uploaded to the correct folder in Centos, e.g /var/www/html/students and every time i need to access the application states that students controller is missing. I tried to rename my folder to 'mysite' and the errors still remain with mysite controller is missing.
So everytime i changed the name of the folder it states a missing controller for that named folder. I tried to figure out in core.php but cant find the solution.
To change the base directory to say /mysite you will have to modify your 3 .htaccess of cakephp i.e one in installlation folder , second inside the app folder,third inside the webroot folder
try adding:-
RewriteBase /mysite/
Hope this helps!
I am using xampp and my document root in apache is set to htdocs directory by default. I download Codeigniter and unzip the project into this directory. It runs fine. Now I would like to use CI to create my own project. In the controllers folder I would like to create a folder named “myproject” and in the views folder of application folder, I would like to create a folder named “myproject_view” in which I will store all of my view files. My problem is I don’t know how to reset my config file (especially the route.php) for my project to work then.
CodeIgniter documentation doesn’t have a section to specify how to do this, the information given in URI Routing chapter is not enough for readers to understand this at all. Plus, What if I also would like to store my controler files in a nested folder (controllers > somefolder > someanotherfolders > etc) ? Thank you very much.
[UPDATE]
If you only leave all controller in controllers folder, and view files in the views folder, then things work out easily, what if you create a folder in teh controllers and a folder for view in the views folder. I guess you need to change your default route configuration. I would like to know HOW ?
CodeIgniter's documentation covers Sub-Folders for Controllers.
Views on the other hand, are always loaded from controllers. Therefore, you can write:
$this->load->view('my_folder_name/my_view');
Routes are not required here.
On my local setup I have a load of different CakePHP websites. I'm using a Mac so the folder structure is something like ~/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-website and then within each of these websites I will have the typical Cake folder and App folder.
What I would like to do is have just a core cake folder and then have ALL the sites pull from that one cake core so I don't have the same stuff several times over. I have been reading some tutorials on the web: http://rickguyer.com/cakephp-one-core-many-apps/
So I have my cake folder here: ~/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/ and then my site here: ~/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/ and in this folder I have the usual app folder and htaccess to tell it where to find webroot etc.
Now I have edited the index.php file inside webroot like the tutorial BUT have only changed one line because I haven't moved my files OUTSIDE of the App folder like he does. So the only like I have changed is as follows:
if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH'))
{
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', '..'.DS.'..'.DS.'cake-1.3');
}
As far as I can tell that is correctly looking two directories up and finding a folder called cake-1.3 however it just gives a error 500?
Any ideas what the problem is? Thanks
EDIT:
Even doing this doesn't work???
Which If I echo: echo CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH; gives /Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3 and if I paste that in the address bar it loads up the cake folder so it's definitely the correct folder structure JUST it doesn't like looking at cake outside of the main url?
if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH'))
{
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'Users'.DS.'cameron'.DS.'Sites'.DS.'cake-1.3'); echo CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH;
}
You are right on the money with:
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'Users'.DS.'cameron'.DS.'Sites'.DS.'cake-1.3');
Just make sure that Users sits in root. In other words, when you go to terminal you can get to this directory by typing: cd /Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3
It looks like you may be on a MAC. If so, your linking is correct. Most of the time what I find is you have done a copy paste of the app directory and it does not get the .htaccess files. I would check those first. But here is a comprehensive list of what you should verify:
Make sure the host is pointing to
the correct directory
(/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/)
Verify mod_rewrite is in fact on.
Verify you have copied the .htaccess
file in both the
/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/
and the
/Users/cameron/Sites/sample-site/webroot
directories.
Confirm that the
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/
directory has a directory called
cake in it that contains the core.
Once all of this is confirmed, you will be good as gold!
Happy Coding!
UPDATE:
When the index.php file looks for the cake core, it will look for a directory inside the location you are pointing to for another directory called cake. So in your case:
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'Users'.DS.'cameron'.DS.'Sites'.DS.'cake-1.3');
You must have the cake directory inside /Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3. Your directory structure will look like:
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake/libs
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake/config
/Users/cameron/Sites/cake-1.3/cake/console
etc.
CakePHP 3.0+
In CakePHP 3.0+ this configuration is moved out of webroot/index.php to App/Config/paths.php
If you have access to your php.ini, you can add the path to Cake core there. Doing it this way means you don't have to change webroot/index.php at all. Example in php.ini:
include_path = ".:/usr/local/lib/php:/home/something/phpinc/cakephp2/lib"
According to the CakePHP 2.x docs, this is the recommended way to share the Cake core (assuming you have access to your php.ini).
You can have only one cake core but you must have one app folder (containing MVC) by site.
Is this a misunderstanding of the folder structure of CakePHP?
From the docs (CakePHP folder structure):
The app folder will be where you work your magic: it’s where your application’s files will be placed.
The cake folder is where we’ve worked our magic. Make a personal commitment not to edit files in this folder. We can’t help you if you’ve modified the core.
So the cake folder shouldn't change between all of your uses, therefore you have 1 copy. You can always change some of the functionality of the core by making your own changes in the app folder i.e. extending.
There is no need to edit index.php.
Just put an alias (or link in UNIX) to your cake folder in each of your sites folder. Works perfectly. Same goes for plugins and vendors folder.
I am a cakephp newbie and I had trouble to view the files under the view folder through browser.
I used cakephp console to bake model, controller and views. (ex: Invoices_controller.php for controller, invoice.php for model and a invoices folders under views folder). According to the tutorial I read, I can access the invoice view by typing http://localhost/myProject/invoices
(there is no index.php inside the invoices folder..but the tutorial shows it still can display a page. no idea how they did it)
The path for my invoices is myProject/views/invoices and there add.ctp, index.ctp, edit.ctp files inside the invoices folder.
The browser showed the file is not found when I typed http://localhost/myProject/invoices
You have some lack in your knowledge about how the webserver handling a request when cakephp is installed. Assume that we use apache.
In cake's folder structure you can see .htaccess files in the root, app and webroot directories what have url rewrite rules in them. At the end a normal request to a cakephp site will be transformed to a http://site.url.root/app/webroot/index.php?url=original.url
In nutshell to understand it in your point of view:
That index.php call the required php files and at least a cakephp app object is built up in the memory with the required models and methods. Then the app object let say start and calls its methods (model, controller and view methods) and at the end it gives back a result to apache what serves it to you.
Therefore the original url path is a "non existent" virtual url.
If you enter http://localhost/myProject/ do you get a cake intro page? If so does it highlight any problems?
It sounds to me as if you do not have Apache set up properly. I don't know what OS you're using, but it might be worth checking this link, written for Ubuntu, to make sure all is well: http://leoponton.blogspot.com/2010/05/getting-cakephp-up-and-running-on.html
I fixed the same problem.
if you are using windows 7 os, wamp server, cakephp 2.2.3. then
goto apache -> http.conf -> open -> search for mod_rewrite -> uncomment the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Now restart your server, now it should work fine.
Jerry, I think the issue is this. You have put the CakePHP folder in the root of localhost. I would propose that you create a virtual host pointing the myProject so the url becomes:
http://myProject/accounting
This may solve your problem. Be sure rewrite module is on. Also, when you point the virtual host to myProject, it should be the APP folder of the cakephp. If you want to run multiple projects off the same core, you can set them up like so:
/var/www/cake
/var/www/html/myProject
/var/www/html/myProject2
The /var/www/cake directory is where you drop the cake core. Under this directory you will have cake, app, plugins, vendors, etc. the myProject(2) directories will be the contents of the app directory.
Now, to get this to work, you need to go to /var/www/html/myProject/webroot/index.php and edit it to point to the cake directory in /var/www/cake. This will then load the core when rewrite points to index.php in webroot. You should be good to go!