exception 'Zend_Controller_Action_Exception' with message 'Action "index" does not exist and was not trapped in __call() ?

Question

Anyone know what this error means? after googling I found a bunch of sites that appear to have the same error? thanks

exception 'Zend_Controller_Action_Exception' with message 'Action "index" does not exist and was not trapped in __call()' in /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs/pintsy/lib/Zend/Controller/Action.php:485
    Stack trace:
    #0 /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs/pintsy/lib/Zend/Controller/Action.php(515): Zend_Controller_Action->__call('indexAction', Array)
    #1 /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs/pintsy/lib/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(289): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('indexAction')
    #2 /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs/pintsy/lib/Zend/Controller/Front.php(946): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
    #3 /usr/local/zend/apache2/htdocs/pintsy/html/index.php(114): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
    #4 {main}

Answer 1

It means there's no indexAction method on your controller class.

Your controller was instantiated and based on the URL, determined the action was "index". This is the default action. For example, if you a URL like this

http://example.com/products/

is usually (Zend is used differently all over the place) the same as a URL like this

http://example.com/products/index

That is, they would both instantiate a ProductController and with an action of index.

public function indexAction(){...}

So, your controller is missing a method named indexAction. What happens next is, the request is sent to PHP magic __call method. If this method exists on a class, calls to non-existent methods go there. The Zend Exception is tell you that, in addition to there being no method for indexAction, therewas nothing in __call about indexAction either.