Question

I tried this from my browser:

http://example.com/contact

But then I get “Controller class ContactController could not be found” error

It doesn’t exist because “contact” is a folder name that isn’t a part of CakePHP application. It has 2 php files inside, but they works standalone. They are not CakePHP app files.

I tried this:

Router::redirect('/contact/*', 'http://example.com/contact/',
    array('status' => 302));

But I got this error from browser
“This webpage has a redirect loop“

How can I make a redirection so I don’t get this error?

Answer 1

It’s possible adding a mod_rewrite rule.

Suppose your app path is:

/var/www/
/var/www/app
/var/www/app/webroot

Add your folder “contact” to

/var/www/contact

Find the CakePHP .htaccess at

/var/www/.htaccess

This are the original contents:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Add the rule bellow after the “RewriteEngine on” line

RewriteRule  ^contact -               [L]

It will look like this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule  ^contact -           [L]
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>