CakePHP Routing Alias, no prefix

Question

I have a dashboard with a series of widgets. Per specification, the widgets need to be buried under a /widgets/ directory.

So I have added the following to my routes.php

Router::connect('/widget/:controller/:action/*', array());

But I seem to be running into trouble on widget/links/ and widget/links/view/1

I am new to CakePHP, but this doesn't seem all that impressive. I have yet to find anything in the Book or by search. So any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well...at the risk of stating the obvious...your route starts with /widget/, but you indicate that you're trying to access it via a plural URI (/widgets/). That's a problem. If that's just a typo, it would help to know what error you're seeing when you "run into trouble".

UPDATE:

Yes that was a typo. I corrected it. The error that appears for widget/links/ is: Error: WidgetController could not be found. It appears my index/default route is the main problem.

Given that information, it appears that CakePHP thinks that widget is your controller. Cake processes routes top down and finds the first one that matches. Ensure that you don't have a route above this one that looks something like /:controller/... or any other route above this one that starts with a variable.