New Controller 404 Error

Need Help
1

I apologize if this question seems basic, but I’ve been reading the Cookbook and struggling for hours and don’t understand why I can’t get a new controller to work. My understanding is that Controllers work similar to python flask routes, but maybe I’m mistaken. I just want to create a page and start building/learning off of that but no matter what I do, I just get error 404 when I try to load /test.

I have created a new project:
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app:4.* myapp

I created a file: src/Controller/TestController.php

and added the following code:

<?php
namespace App\Controller;

class TestController extends AppController
{
    public function index()
    {
    }
}
2

What kind of 404 do you get?
like, your webserver’s 404 or CakePHP’s big bad red telling you it’s missing the controller?

3

It’s been a while since I used create-project. Does that automatically do composer install for you, to get all the dependencies and autoloader installed in the vendor folder? If not, did you do that part?

4

@FinlayDaG33k got me thinking in the right direction. I was receiving the error from the webserver. For some reason, although I had already set “AllowOverride All” I had to do this:

sudo mv /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

Thanks for asking the right questions!

5

I believe you’re supposed to link files from mods-available into mods-enabled, not move them. A subsequent update to Apache might update the file for loading that module; a symlink would pick that change up, but a moved file won’t.