Question

I’ve been running into an issue with running CakePHP 1.3 shells. I have a shell that I want to test, so I change to the directory of my app and attempt to run it:

$ pwd
/path/to/cakephp/app
$ ../cake/console/cake
No configuration could be loaded for domain /path/to/cakephp/app. Exiting...

Okay, that’s a little weird. So let’s try to pass an -app to it:

$ ../cake/console/cake -app /path/to/cakephp/app

Welcome to CakePHP v1.3.8 Console
---------------------------------------------------------------
Current Paths:
 -app: /path/to/cakephp/app/
 -working: /path/to/cakephp//path/to/cakephp/app
 -root: /path/to/cakephp
 -core: /path/to/cakephp

…huh? The core dir is completely wrong and I have no idea what’s going on with that working directory. Passing a working directory with -working results in the exact same output.

On top of that, none of my shells are being detected. I notice in the CakePHP book that this command is supposed to show a list of directories where it is looking for shells and tells you if there are none with - none. Instead, no directories show up, period. The shells are in app/vendors/shells for what it’s worth.

So…I’m lost. What’s going on here?

Answer 1

Answered by someone on Cake’s core team:

13:10:15 <savant> AlexMax: 1.3.8 has known issues with shells
13:10:19 <savant> please update to 1.3.13

Well, guess that sorts it.