if you go the virtual root then you'll easily avoid these issues a simple one liner in the .htaccess with let you ignore a certain folders
If I recall correctly the IBM tutorials have some out of date info have you seen chris hartjes tutorial and the stuff in book *http://tinyurl.com/5pq9mh - first link is the chris's simple reg tutoral *hth - S 2008/5/14 Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I agree with you that virtual hosts may be useful down the line. But > the problem I am having now is that when trying to run the tutorial > from IBM it brings the register screen up fine, but when I press > submit it shows the 404 error object not found and the url shows > localhost/users/register instead of localhost/cake/users/register. To > see the register view I rtpe in localhost/cake/users/register and it > displays fine. I even tried changing the code in the > user_controller.php to point to /cake/users/register instead of what > the tutorial states of /users/register and it did not help. I did add > RewriteBase /cake/ to my /cake directory as a FAQ suggested. This did > not help unless I moved it to my document root in which case cake > worked and my other apps did not! > > On May 13, 12:14 am, Grant Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When your site is published it won't be shared with these other > > packages will it? Your development platform should replicate the > > server as close as possible, which is why a virtualhost is usually a > > very good idea. > > > > But I've got Cake installations just in a folder in my webroot with no > > problem. If you don't touch the .htaccess files at all, but put the > > whole package in say /var/www/html/cake1.2 (so you have /var/www/html/ > > cake1.2/app/webroot), then browse tohttp://localhost/cake1.2it > > should work fine. > > > > On May 13, 11:30 am, Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am running 3 other applications without a problem and without > > > virtual hosts. Ftom localhost I don't think I should need to use > > > virtual hosts. > > > > > On May 5, 2:32 am, simonb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You are most likely running all the sites from the same directory so > > > > the htaccess applies to all websites. > > > > > > assuming you are using apache you need to create a seperate entry in > > > > your virtualhosts to point to the cakephp webroot. > > > > so your default home page for cake at ~/cake/ this is where your > > > > htaccess file should sit along with the index.php file from /app/ > > > > webroot/ > > > > > > Look at creating virtualhosts first on google and then look at the > > > > problem you have above. It's not a cakephp issue it's a server setup > > > > problem. > > > > > > On May 5, 8:49 am, Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I know this question has been asked before but the answers have > not > > > > > seemed to help. I am trying to go thru this tutorial and I have > > > > > created the user model the register view and the users_controller > just > > > > > as chapter one said. From the group I have added the "RewriteBase > / > > > > > cake/" to the .htaccess files under ~/cake/ directory. When I run > the > > > > > app from localhost I get yhe register screen and I enter the data > and > > > > > press register. The next screen I see is the object not found 404 > > > > > error with the url pointing to /localhost/users/register instead > of / > > > > > cake/users/register. I then copied the .htaccess file to the web > root. > > > > > It then worked successfully and inserted the row into the > database. > > > > > However the other applications I am trying ro run such as > egroupware > > > > > and simple invoices then went to cake also and I could not run > them. > > > > > So I removed the .htaccess file from root and went back to the 404 > > > > > error in cake. I feel I am missing something simple here could > someone > > > > > please point me in the right direction?- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
