Question

So I created a couple of static pages in views > pages folder. They are contact.ctp and privacy.ctp. In my routes.php, I made it so that they could be viewed by going to domain.com/contact and domain.com/privacy with:

    Router::connect('/contact', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'contact'));

    Router::connect('/privacy', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'privacy'));

Now, when I link them at the footer with:

    <li><?= $this->Html->link('Contact', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'contact')); ?></a></li>

    <li><?= $this->Html->link('Privacy', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'privacy')); ?></a></li>

They are linked as domain.com/pages/terms. How can I stop it from appending the pages controller without giving an absolute url (i.e. without doing: <?= $this->Html->link('Contact', 'http://www.domain.com/contact'); ?> or is that the only other way?

Answer 1

you probably put these routes after Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display')); Just reverse that order and it should work.