Question

I have a front controller that works. I wrote a login controller called AuthController.php. It is configured with the appropriate code inside. My problem is when I go to /auth I get a 404. It seems to be some sort of routing problem.

My auth controller is called AuthController.php and the top part of it looks like this:

class AuthController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
public function init()
{
    /* Initialize action controller here */
}


public function indexAction()
{
    $form = new Application_Form_Login();
    $request = $this->getRequest();
    if ($request->isPost()) {
        if ($form->isValid($request->getPost())) {
            if ($this->_process($form->getValues())) {
                // We're authenticated! Redirect to the home page
                $this->_helper->redirector('index', 'index');
            }
        }
    }
    $this->view->form = $form;
}

and of course there are protected functions below that handle other things. In Zend, when you create a new controller, doesn’t just its existence (like in CodeIgniter) mean it should be available? Or do I have to add it to a routing table somewhere?

EDIT: Here is my Apache Vhost config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName      new.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot    /www/htdocs/zend/public
<Directory /www/htdocs/zend/public>
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled (if on Apache)
2. Make sure the AuthController.php file is in the default module (the same one you
   have put your IndexController.php into)
3. Check the httpd.conf file is set in Apache to allow overides (so htaccess will work) – this might be apache.conf if using a debian box with debian squeeze – not sure about other linux types though.

If all of this is correct then it should work just fine.