It totally sounds like a mod_rewrite issue. You mentioned that cake 'hated' being in rewriteless mode. What exactly happened?
-Mark On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:14:41 UTC-5, florida...@gmail.com wrote: > > Unknown bug in either setup or programming (not limited to Cake) > > The combination: HP 15 Touchsmart Laptop w/ Win8.1 ------- Wamp Server > 2.5 ------ Cakephp 2.5.5 > > I have looked online for 2 days now. There is no solution. > > Originally thought it was a mod-rewrite issue. Issue is that blog tutorial > "localhost/cakephp/posts/index" renders a 404 and port 80 page. Copy and > paste straight from cookbook, go back and add <?php....pray to jesus if you > like. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. In googling the posts/index issue looking for a > reasonable fix a thread on stackoverflow insisted it was a mod_rewrite > issue. I had hoped to avoid this but decided to tackle it. (yes I tried to > remove all 3 .htaccess and uncomment line 107 of core.php...cake hates this > so I reverted the changes) > > First attempt...found AllowOverride none and changed to all (sprockets > flying everywhere) Tried to revert, wamp totally shredded, zero > functionality....had to reinstall. Carefully reread cookbook and only > altered the AllowOverride in the instance you listed leaving all other > AllowOverride instances alone. Had to add "Options FollowSymLinks" as that > is apparently foreign to Apache 2.4.9 but did place it exactly where it was > shown in cookbook. > > On the Cake home page the mod_rewrite disclaimer has long since vanished > indicating that mod_rewrite was probably available PRIOR to all this > needless configuring. > > Bottomline: Absolute standstill. With current setup Cakephp has 1% > functionality...it can display the homepage and nothing else. I take that > back "localhost/cakephp/fargo.php" still works. This was my one line "who > am i" php script copied straight from cookbook and named randomly. This > works, but then if I have to write everything outside of the framework what > is the point? > > Background: > Why did I post here? Can't find a Cakephp forum. Has this exact problem > been solved before? Wouldn't know, I'm not good with google groups format > which you've chosen. I'm more experienced with querying forums for fast > answers. Google search (for once) is at a loss to provide an answer. > -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
