Thanks for posting that. It's always good to post resolutions for others to find.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:36 AM, OxfordRob <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you to jsundquist , crush, sams and cricket over the last few days for > helping me with my Authentication tutorial problems. I fixed it this > morning. > > My take-away from this is a very general 'lesson learned' and I thought I > would share the knowledge for any other beginner who comes through here. > > The error message I started with was: > > PHP Fatal error: Class 'AppController' not found in > /var/www/lib/Cake/Controller/CakeErrorController.php on line 31 > > PHP Stack trace: > > PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:0 > > PHP 2. Dispatcher->dispatch() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:97 > > > This sent me on a 2-day joy-ride looking for, moving and changing access > permissions to the 'AppController' class definition file. In the process of > course I screwed up my configuration and got in a hopeless mess. > > So this morning I re-built everything very carefully, followed the > instructions to the letter....and got exactly the same error! > > I was about to say "Enough cake for me"...but then remembered that "too much > cake" is one of the shortest self-contradictory statements in the English > Language. > > I decided to copy back the original, distribution AppController.php file - > and the error message went away. > > My conclusion was...this is not the fact that the file is missing, but class > is not compiling successfully. WIth this in mind I took a look at the Apache > Error log.....and this is what I found... > > PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, > expecting ')' in /var/www/app/Controller/AppController.php on line 41 > > PHP Stack trace: > > PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:0 > > PHP 2. Dispatcher->dispatch() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:97 > > PHP 3. Dispatcher->_getController() > /var/www/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php:152 > > PHP 4. Dispatcher->_loadController() > /var/www/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php:228 > > PHP 5. class_exists() /var/www/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php:259 > > PHP 6. App::load() /var/www/lib/Cake/Core/App.php:0 > > PHP 7. include() /var/www/lib/Cake/Core/App.php:560 > > PHP 8. App::load() /var/www/lib/Cake/Core/App.php:0 > > PHP Fatal error: Class 'AppController' not found in > /var/www/lib/Cake/Controller/CakeErrorController.php on line 31 > > PHP Stack trace: > > PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:0 > > PHP 2. Dispatcher->dispatch() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:97 > > > (This is where I should "Arghhhhh!") > > The error message shown on the screen is not the complete error string! > > I guess that Cake / PHP is only displaying the Fatal Error, and casually > loosing the real error here. I.e. it was not that the file was missing or in > the wrong place - but that the class definition had a simple syntax error in > it (too trivial and embarrassing to mention here) > > So here is my beginners lesson learned: Keep an eye on the Apache error log > (obvious really). The message on the screen is not only formatted in a way > that makes it hard to read - it my not be displaying all of the useful > information you need to sort out the problem. > > Rob > > > > > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en. > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en.
