Question

I’m trying to do my first steps with CakePHP 2 console with Leopard and XAMPP but I get many problems which are not clear to me.

In the CakePHP 2.0 guide is written i need to setup correctly /app/Config/database.php to be sure it works, then I’ve tested it with an user registration and everything works.

Then I’ve read I can call the command via shell:

$ cake schema create DbAcl

This doesn’t work because I must write the right path to the console app, then:

$ /Users/username/.../site.com/lib/Cake/Console/cake schema create DbAcl

After did that I get this error:

Welcome to CakePHP v2.0.4 Console
---------------------------------------------------------------
App : username
Path: /Users/username/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Cake Schema Shell
---------------------------------------------------------------
/Users/username/Config/Schema/db_acl.php could not be loaded
iMac-Name:~ username$

My CakePHP installation is located in the folder site.com:

site.com/app
site.com/lib
site.com/plugins
site.com/vendors
site.com/etc.

So I did this to change the CakePHP folder to the installation folder named site.com

$ /Users/username/.../site.com/lib/Cake/Console/cake -app /Users/.../site.com

Now I get this message:

Welcome to CakePHP v2.0.4 Console
---------------------------------------------------------------
App : site.com
Path: /Users/.../public_html/site.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Current Paths:

-app: site.com
-working: /Users/.../site.com
-root: /Users/.../public_html
-core: /Users/.../site.com/lib

Now if I write

$ /Users/username/.../site.com/lib/Cake/Console/cake schema create DbAcl

I get the wrong original path again with a different error:

Welcome to CakePHP v2.0.4 Console
---------------------------------------------------------------
App : username
Path: /Users/username/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Cake Schema Shell
---------------------------------------------------------------
/Users/username/Config/Schema/db_acl.php could not be loaded

How can I fix the path correctly?

Answer 1

strange thing, if I set user folder first, it works correctly:

$ cd folder/webserver/public_html/cake-app-folder
$ sudo lib/Cake/Console/cake schema DbAcl

in this way it works perfect