Check to make sure there is no whitespace after the closing "?>" in database.php. Even better, delete the closing tag altogether.
On Jan 21, 5:44 pm, Lucas Loss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys! > > I've been trying to understand this problem for a while now and I have > no clue on what is going on. Here go some steps to explain what is > happening: > 1. I've downloaded (today - January 21, 2010) the versions 1.2.5 and > 1.3.0 beta from CakePHP.org website; > 2. Uncompressed them and put on the folder where apache reads them; > 3. Accessing the version 1.3.0 (on my machine:http://localhost/cakephp-1.3.0/) > I get a beautiful screen (with colours, CSS, all the stuff you expect > to see...) where there is a sentence that says: "Your database > configuration file is NOT present. Rename config/database.php.default > to config/database.php"; And that's expected; To see a print of this > page I'm talking about please follow the > linkhttp://yfrog.com/jp130beforedatabasep; > 4. Then I've renamed the file database.php.default to database.php; > 5. Back to the browser I reloaded the page and noticed a new sentence: > "Your database configuration file is present. Cake is NOT able to > connect to the database." - That's what I was expecting - the same > beautiful page with colours and CSS but with a different message about > the database connection; To sse a print of the page please > openhttp://yfrog.com/08130afterdatabasep; > > So... what's the problem? > The problem is that these same steps don't work for cakephp version > 1.2.5, which is the stable version. Here is what happens: > 1. On the 1.2.5 version, the screen has colours, CSS and the sentence > "Your database configuration file is NOT present. Rename config/ > database.php.default to config/database.php", all as expected; Please > see a print of the page onhttp://yfrog.com/0n125beforedatabasep; > 2. So I'll go and rename the database.php.default file to simply > database.php; > 3. Back to the browser, I reload that page and that's when the problem > happens: There are no more colours, no CSS, no styles and there is > just about 1/4 of all text the this page is supposed to show; Please > see a print of the page onhttp://yfrog.com/jp125afterdatabasep; > > I was using cakephp on Windows and I believed that it was a Windows > problem because a friend of mine tried the same steps on his machine > (Ubuntu) and didn't get this error. > So I installed Ubuntu and after having everything ready to start > studying cakephp, I got the same problem! > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > > Cheers > Lucas Loss Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
