Doh! Man I cant believe I missed that. Thank you Geoff. This totally
worked.
public $components = array(
'Acl',
'Session',
'Auth' => array(
'loginRedirect' => array('controller' => 'main', 'action'
=> 'index'),
'actionPath' => 'controllers/',
'allow' => array('login')
)
);
On Dec 7, 3:52 am, Geoff Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think what you are missing is an "allow" for the login method.
> Technically the login method needs to be publicly accessible. So, the
> line you have commented out that says:
> //$this->Auth->allow(array('*'));
>
> needs to say
> $this->Auth->allow(array('login'));
>
> This will allow an un-authenticated user to post to that method and
> login.
>
> Try something like that. Let me know what you see.
>
> On Dec 6, 8:21 am, RhythmicDevil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I followed the instructions
> > here:http://book.cakephp.org/view/1543/Simple-Acl-controlled-Application
> > to learn how to setup ACL and Auth. My two test attempts went smoothly
> > and worked as expected. However, now that I am trying it for real its
> > failing. I get stuck in this redirect loop and I dont understand why.
> > No matter what valid URL I enter, I get a redirect loop.
>
> > This is the beforeFilter in my AppController:
>
> > function beforeFilter()
> > {
> > parent::beforeFilter();
>
> > //$this->Auth->allow(array('*'));
>
> > //Configure AuthComponent
> > $this->Auth->authorize = 'actions';
> > /*
> > * If the user did not select a controller/action before
> > logging in, then
> > * this controller/action willbe executed.
> > */
> > $this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users',
> > 'action' => 'login');
> > /*
> > * Send the user here after logging out
> > */
> > $this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('controller' => 'users',
> > 'action' => 'login');
> > /*
> > * Send the user here after logging in.
> > */
> > $this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'main',
> > 'action' => 'index');
> > }
>
> > Here are the login() and logout() methods for my users_controller
>
> > function login()
> > {
> > if ($this->Session->read('Auth.User'))
> > {
>
> > $this->Session->setFlash('You are logged in!');
> > $this->redirect($this->Auth->loginRedirect, null, false);
> > }
> > }
>
> > function logout()
> > {
>
> > exit('WTF');
>
> > $this->Session->setFlash('Good-Bye');
> > $this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
> > }
>
> > I expect if I enter:http://swright-dev.epic-cake/users/logoutIwould
> > see "WTF" on the screen. I get redirected.
>
> > This is what I see repeated in my Apache access_log:
> > 172.27.3.23 - - [06/Dec/2011:11:12:58 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 1
> > "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101
> > Firefox/5.0"
>
> > Nothing is generated in the Apache error_log, or Cake's error and
> > debug logs.
>
> > The only way the redirect loop stops is if I uncomment this line in
> > the beforeFilter:
> > //$this->Auth->allow(array('*'));
> > But then no Auth works obviously. Can someone please point me in the
> > right direction?
>
> > Thanks.
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