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:
1.Configure::write('debug', 2);This should reveal any remaining issues.
