Perfect. I got it now. It works as you indicated with no missing controller error.
Side question, how would you get this to work if you weren't using mod_rewrite (anything in the routes.php that you could configure for that?). Mostly just curious... Thanks, G Kramer On Apr 7, 5:24 am, "Steven M. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer to this is that the mod_rewrite (.htaccess) files are > already setup to handle this. If you access a file hosted in /app/ > webroot/files/example.pdf from the URLwww.example.com/files/example.pdf, > it will redirect you to example.com/app/webroot/files/example.pdf. If > however the file doesn't exist, then cake will try to parse it as a > request for a controller. > > Notice the couple of lines in app/webroot/.htaccess saying "!-f" and > "!-d"? That's a test to see if the request is already a file, or a > directory...and if so, just let the request pass through. Otherwise, > redirect to cake's controller processing. > > Steven > > On Apr 5, 10:08 am, G Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry, I have a similar issue and don't quite follow this > > response. This says I don't need to change the routes/rewrite rules > > but yet I still will get an error ... aren't we talking about how to > > get rid of the error? > > > Thanks, > > Greg K > > > On Mar 28, 11:51 am, Sliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > files is a special folder that should work for direct links to files > > > within it, without needing to modify routes/rewrite from a default > > > install, but you will get a filescontroller error for a bad link --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
