John Davidson

Message:

I am setting up my cakephp project on a local test environment from my GIT repo.

it is accessed like so:
localhost/projectName/controller/action

However, i get an error saying the controller "projectName" cannot be found.

So, i need it to use localhost/projectName as my "root" directory, and i am kinda lost as to how. I can obviously define a manual route like:

$routes->connect('/projectName/controller/action', ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'home']);

but i don't know how i can make it a "catch all" instead of just routing to one specific controller / action?

I hope my question makes sense.
thanks

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My Answer:
To set up CakePHP to use localhost/projectName as the root directory, you can update the base URL in your CakePHP configuration file.

In your config/app.php file, find the 'App' configuration section and update the 'base' key to '/projectName'. It should look something like this:

php
'App' => [
'namespace' => 'App',
'encoding' => 'UTF-8',
'defaultLocale' => env('APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE', 'en_US'),
'defaultTimezone' => env('APP_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE', 'UTC'),
'base' => '/projectName',
'dir' => ROOT,
'webroot' => 'webroot',
'wwwRoot' => WWW_ROOT,
// other configurations...
],


This will tell CakePHP to use localhost/projectName as the base URL for your project.

Additionally, you can set up a catch-all route in your routes.php file to handle all requests to your project. You can do this by adding a route like this:

php
$routes->connect('/:controller/:action/*', [], ['routeClass' => 'DashedRoute']);


This route will match any request that follows the pattern localhost/projectName/controller/action and route it to the appropriate controller and action.

Make sure to clear your cache after making these changes by running `bin/cake cache clear` in your project directory.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.