Strange routing issue

elbert · December 20, 2021, 12:50pm

Hi All,

Since yesterdaymoring I have a very strange problem and I don’t know how to debug it. I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I have a site up and running (and live, therefore difficult to debug). I develop this site on localhost and on localhost I do not have any issues.
The problem occurs since yesterday-moring, but: I did not change anything on my server the last week.
The only thing I can imagine, is some server/WHM/Appache update that causes this (but on the other hand that seems unlikely if you see the problem, which look like a routing issue).

Here we go:
It is a commercial site with a cart. I Therefore have a CartsController with (amongst other) the action addtocart(). This has worked perfectly for ages.
Since yesterday, ALL the URL’s I build and that point to my CartsController, are re-routed to ‘account’.

So This
<?=$this->Url->build(['plugin' => false, 'prefix' => false, 'controller' => 'Carts', 'action' => 'addtocart']); ?>
Results in this:
https://mysite.com/account/addtocart/3
(instead of “https://mysite.com/carts/addtocart/3” as it has always done.

So: that looks to me like a standard CakePHP routing setting like :
$routes->connect('/account/addtocart', ['controller' => 'Carts', 'action' => 'addtocart']]); (or something to that effect)
But: I checked my whole code (and of course espacially routes.php, but also plugins, etc) and can not find any route that matches this.

And the strangest thing (to me) is that I did not change any code on my server last week, so I can not understand how/why this happens.

Does anyone have any ideas? Can I check this somehow in logs? But how? Where? (on a live server, not on localhost) What would you do?
Any help is appriciated.

(I use CakePHP 3.10.2)

KevinPfeifer · December 20, 2021, 3:53pm

Do you have routes cache enabled in your RoutingMiddleware?

github.com

cakephp/app/blob/4.x/src/Application.php#L92

    
      
          // Handle plugin/theme assets like CakePHP normally does.
          ->add(new AssetMiddleware([
              'cacheTime' => Configure::read('Asset.cacheTime'),
          ]))
          
          
// Add routing middleware.
          // If you have a large number of routes connected, turning on routes
          // caching in production could improve performance. For that when
          // creating the middleware instance specify the cache config name by
          // using it's second constructor argument:
          // `new RoutingMiddleware($this, '_cake_routes_')`
          ->add(new RoutingMiddleware($this))
          
          
// Parse various types of encoded request bodies so that they are
          // available as array through $request->getData()
          // https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/controllers/middleware.html#body-parser-middleware
          ->add(new BodyParserMiddleware())
          
          
// Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection Middleware
          // https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/controllers/middleware.html#cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-middleware
          ->add(new CsrfProtectionMiddleware([

If so, maybe there is a problem with that since the default duration of the routes cache is 1 year.

github.com

cakephp/app/blob/4.x/config/app.php#L145

    
      
              /*
               * Configure the cache for routes. The cached routes collection is built the
               * first time the routes are processed through `config/routes.php`.
               * Duration will be set to '+2 seconds' in bootstrap.php when debug = true
               */
              '_cake_routes_' => [
                  'className' => FileEngine::class,
                  'prefix' => 'myapp_cake_routes_',
                  'path' => CACHE,
                  'serialize' => true,
                  'duration' => '+1 years',
                  'url' => env('CACHE_CAKEROUTES_URL', null),
              ],
          ],
          
          
/*
           * Configure the Error and Exception handlers used by your application.
           *
           * By default errors are displayed using Debugger, when debug is true and logged
           * by Cake\Log\Log when debug is false.
           *

Have you tried bin/cake cache clear_all on your live server?

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