This morning when I uploaded my site to live I came across one of those cryptic CakePHP messages Error: The requested address “/” was not found on this serverwhich I thought I’d blog about just as a note to self. I knew I had access to everything and my Auth setup was copied from DEV where it was working so I went through my normal routine for identifying the problem.
In my case it turned out to be a number of issues (a missing file and a missing database table) but the process to identify and therefore fix the problem is:
- Make sure you set up your DATABASE_CONFIG is setup correctly (database.php)
- Check that your tmp folder (and all of it’s sub folders) are writable (at least chmod 666 on Linux),
- While you’re there delete all cache files from allof the tmp sub folders
After that, if you’re still having “Error: The requested address “/” was not found on this server” then you’re likely to be missing a database table or an include file, so go into your core.php and set:
Configure::write('debug', 2);
This should reveal any remaining issues.
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great tutorial.. thank’s a lot
Thank you – I had the exact issue and your solution worked perfectly.
Great to hear Andrew, thanks for the comment.
You just saved my life. I just had to clear the cache, but I was so panicked it didn’t even occur to me. Thanks!
Thanks, very useful. I think the first step should be to set the debug level to 2 as this should display the errors, rather than guessing at what they are.
Thank You
Thanks bro…..
u r great…
Thank 4 the post! I had the same error but your post was the solution. Blessings friend
perfect tut
Nice post..lot of thanks 4 this post
hello
i turned on cache as “Configure::write(‘debug’, 2);”
but it shows only warnings and notices not errors.
please help me how to enable the errors.
Thank You