Question

I have the following bit of code in my AppController, which I’m using to intercept a 404 and run some code beforehand. Right now I’ve trimmed it all back to basics whilst debugging.

public function appError($error) {
  throw new NotFoundException();
}

The exception name is irrelevent at this point, my problem is its causing a 500 error no matter what exception I throw.

All I want to do is throw a 404 and display my 404 page, which works fine if I enter a non-existent URL into my app.

Is there something that I’m missing at is causing this 500? I can’t get any meaningful error messages, as its just showing the exception error 500.

Answer 1

Throwing an exception inside appError() itself will just cause a loop and cake will bail out with a 500 error