I think it is rewriting problem, try something like this:
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_check_if_mod_rewrite_is_enabled_on_your_server
If it is not, there's your problem :-)
and if it is on, then you should google around for setting up .htaccess
files and in what way to modify them.
2012/9/27 Paul Willis <paul.wil...@me.com>
> Okay, thanks for that. Unfortunately it doesn't fix my issue.
>
> Your setup is slightly different as you have your domain pointing to the
> root folder of your cake folder. That is usually how I have mine set up
> when I am controlling the server. However in this case on someone else's
> server I'm in a sub folder but it is accessed by users via the full path
> like this…
>
> domain.com/oursite/caketest
>
> I've decided to take the long route and put in a request to the customer
> to ask the webhost for full details of the setup, what AllowOverride is set
> to and hopefully a copy of the apache conf file so I can see what exactly
> is going on.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2012, at 17:02, Ivan Rimac <ivn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, this is my structure:
>
> domain.com/.htaccess
>
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteBase /
> RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
> RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
> </IfModule>
>
> domain.com/app/.htaccess
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteBase /app/
> RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
> RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
> </IfModule>
>
> domain.com/app/webroot/.htaccess
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteBase /app/webroot/
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
> </IfModule>
>
> And it works fine for me. I have another site running cakephp as subdomain
> like sub.domain.com and it points to domain.com/subdomainfolder, where i
> cakephp app.
> There I have exactly the sam structure of .htaccess files, and it works
> with no problems.
>
>
>
> 2012/9/27 Paul Willis <paul.wil...@me.com>
>
>> I tried editing my .htaccess in domain.com/oursite/caketest/ but it made
>> no difference.
>>
>> Are your other two .htaccess files set to the default without RewriteBase
>> being set?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 27 Sep 2012, at 16:38, Ivan Rimac <ivn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I had similar issue.
>> >
>> > You can try enter this into app/.htaccess file
>> >
>> > <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>> > RewriteEngine on
>> > RewriteBase /
>> > RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
>> > RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
>> > </IfModule>
>> >
>> > And check if there is on your Auth component allowed to display home
>> page.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps,
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/9/27 Paul Willis <paul.wil...@me.com>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I can't get a brand new CakePHP installation working on a customer's
>> server. The details of what is going on are below, including everything
>> I've tried, but my conclusion is that it is probably something as simple as
>> AllowOverride isn't set to 'all'. The guys who run the server only take
>> instructions from the customer via a ticket system (fair enough) so it is a
>> slow operation to get changes made or details of configs out of them etc.
>> I'd like to have some facts to approach them with rather than go fishing.
>> Is there something I can do to test this?
>> >
>> > The details….
>> >
>> > We are creating a mini site within a subfolder on a customer's
>> Apache/2.2.16 server. Their main website runs on...
>> >
>> > domain.com/
>> >
>> > We have been given access to a subfolder...
>> >
>> > domain.com/oursite/
>> >
>> > I dropped a basic phpinfo() index.php into the subfolder, surfed in and
>> it displays fine. PHP 5.3.3 is installed and processes the page.
>> >
>> > phpinfo() suggests that the actual path to our folder is…
>> >
>> > /var/www/oursite
>> >
>> > I then dropped a cake php installation into the subfolder all contained
>> in a directory called 'caketest'. This is basically an unstuffed download
>> of CakePHP 2.2.2 but when I go in my browser to...
>> >
>> > domain.com/oursite/caketest/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > If I go to...
>> >
>> > domain.com/oursite/caketest/app/webroot/
>> >
>> > I see a Cake error page (with no CSS)…
>> >
>> > Missing Method in AppController
>> > Error: The action webroot is not defined in controller
>> AppController
>> >
>> > Following the advanced installation suggestions on
>> http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/advanced-installation.html
>> >
>> > I've tried uncommenting the line…
>> >
>> > define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT . DS . 'lib');
>> >
>> > ..in app/webroot/index.php
>> >
>> > I've tried defining the paths manually in app/webroot/index.php…
>> >
>> > define('ROOT', DS . 'var' . DS . 'www' . DS . 'oursite');
>> > define('APP_DIR', 'caketest');
>> > define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS . 'var' . DS . 'www' . DS .
>> 'oursite' . DS . 'caketest' . DS . 'lib');
>> >
>> > I've tried adding…
>> >
>> > RewriteBase /var/www/oursite/caketest
>> >
>> > ...to each of the three .htaccess files with no change in the results.
>> >
>> > Nothing makes any difference to my results so any suggestions
>> gratefully received
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
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