Hi everyone,
I'm new to CakePHP, and I've been trying to figure out how to do these
links in a proper way. Explicit links are not so useful to me, since
I'm developing in my own computer, but as soon as the host and domain
for the website are ready I'll have to upload it, and of course the
links to 'localhost' won't work (and I'm sure I'm not the only one).
For now the only thing I can think of is defining a constant
WEBROOT_URI pointing to http://localhost/my-website/app/webroot/,
which I'll have to change when I upload the website. However, it is
not clear to me whether this is a good solution. I suppose there is a
straightforward way of doing this, but I just don't know it.
Any comments? What am I not seeing?
PS: I'm not using .htaccess
On Apr 9, 8:38 am, G Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I can answer my own question now (which was pretty easy, once
> I "got it"). You have to construct the links to thefiles
> explicitly: ie, html->link("click
> here","http://www.mydomain.com/files/example.pdf";). Or, on a system without
> mod_rewrite, thelink
> would be to: http://mydomain.com/app/webroot/files/example.pdf";
>
> I had been trying to build thelinklike this:
> html->link("click here","/files/example.pdf")
>
> bit thelinkCake constructs does notlinkto the file ... it tries tolinkto a
> "files" controller", leading to the error I was getting (and
> on my system without mod_write it includes index.php in the url, which
> again leads to a problem).
>
> That's my theory at least. Linkto thefilesdirectly, and you're OK.
>
> -Greg Kramer
>
> On Apr 8, 10:50 pm, G Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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)filesare
> > > 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:
>
> > > > >filesis a specialfolderthat should work for direct links tofiles
> > > > > within it, without needing to modify routes/rewrite from a default
> > > > > install, but you will get a filescontroller error for a badlink
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