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Zend framework "invalid controller" error message

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Hi !, in your case the frontcontroller is trying to reach to the index (homepage) of your site but he couldn't reach it because there is some error in your path to the controller directory after he fails to do that there is a controller plugin called "Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler" and this one is registered by default so it forward the request to the error controller which is also not found by the front controller so he said to you this error

so check the path to your controller directory

i hope i'd explain it well to you :)

Okey,

Follow along with me : this code should found in index.php file

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL || E_STRICT);

define('APPLICATION_PATH' , realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/../application' );


set_include_path(
    APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library'
    . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()
);

require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();



try
{
    require '../application/bootstrap.php';
}
catch(Exception $exception)
{
    echo "<html><body> an exception occured while bootstrapping the application";

    if (defined('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT') && APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT != 'production')
    {
     echo "<br/><br/>" . $excepion->getMessage() . "<br/>"
     . "<div align='left'>Stack Trace: "
     . "<pre> " . $exception->getTraceAsString() . "</pre></div>";
    }
    echo "</body></html";
    exit(1);
}

Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->dispatch();

and I guess now you had an file called "Application" , "bootstrap" or "initlizer" what ever named it should looks like

<?php

defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
    or define('APPLICATION_PATH' , dirname(__FILE__));

defined('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT')
    or define('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT', 'development');



$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();

$frontController->setControllerDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH . '/controllers');


$frontController->setParam('env' , APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT);


Zend_Layout::startMvc(APPLICATION_PATH . '/layouts/scripts');


$view = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView();
$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');

unset($frontController);

you should double check this line :

  $frontController->setControllerDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH . '/controllers');

it sets the path to the ControllerDirectory

tawfekov 2009-12-14 11:32:01

Thanks for your comment. Do you have any idea where these paths would be set? I have require_once 'Zend/Controller/Front.php'; in Initializer.php and that seems correct

stef 2009-12-14 11:37:26

i dont really what your ZF version so i will refer to ZF Quick start http://bit.ly/67TK8d but if you are using ZF1.8 or higher check out your config file and look for something like : resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"resources.frontController.defaultControllerName = "index"

tawfekov 2009-12-14 11:53:46

When I run a filesearch for "defaultControllerName", nothing shows up. I think I'm using ZF 1.6. Could it be these settings are stored in a different way?

stef 2009-12-14 14:04:21

i had updated my answer above so search the code for "$frontController->setControllerDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH . '/controllers');" dont search the files

tawfekov 2009-12-14 14:50:47

fixed it - there was an issue with the rights on the IndexController parent folder that only the server admin could fix.Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

stef 2009-12-14 15:57:56

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