Cake app running on WAMP sever vs bin\cake server problems

[rboatright]

OK, we can close this.

It turns out that authentication 2.0 had a bug with respect to running in subdirectories. It was annoying to discover that in order to update authentication I had to manually adjust version contraints in composer.json, oh well. Upgrading to 2.3.1 fixed the problem. See this post here:

Authentication and root folder mismatch after subfolder implementation

I have worked with an working app locally, but after putting it online I see a relation between the authentication plugin and encountered errors. The application is stored in a subfolder of a webpage e.g. www.X.y/cakephpapp/. Going to tables indexes correctly routes to /cakephpapp/tablename, but the authentication check redirects to /users/login, which returns in 404. Moreover, while loggin in @ /cakephpapp/users/login, debugging the authenticator result gives the following error: [protected] …