Comments on: Having Problems When Upgrading CakePHP?

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:39:29 +0000

@lost session for no reason

Well, the problem is not with your upgrading of Cake. Sessions don’t just get lost for no reason, despite what people might think. If you’re using the Auth component, also make sure that if you are doing any Ajax calls that you have changed the setting in APP/config/core.php for ‘Session.checkAgent’ to be false, otherwise it can trigger new sessions.

I’ve used the Auth component MANY times, and never had any problems with sessions getting dropped for no reason.

By: lost session for no reason

lost session for no reason — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:05:24 +0000

Hi, the version of cakephp that I used is 1.2.07296 rc2, I did all the configurations you talked above. My sessions handling method is cake. tmp folder and sub-folder permission was changed to 777, skip to next page when log in successfully, but it return to log in page.
can you help me ? I’ ve taken many time on it . Thanks in advance!

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:17:53 +0000

I’ve been using the SVN Vendor directory technique I saw in Felix’s blog. Been meaning to write up my method (he uses tortoise SVN, I had to figure it out for the command line client), but it works well. Any problems, just roll back.

Sean

By: Baz L

Baz L — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:15:06 +0000

If it’s one thing I commend you guys for, it’s those warning messages.

90% of the time, I can solve my own problems.

By: Sam D

Sam D — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:05:56 +0000

I think another couple of things that always seem to trip people up are

1. the structure of the default tmp folder is important, either their unzipping/tar process doesn’t create empty folders, their upload program skips them, or something

2. failure to upload the .htaccess files, a lot of uploads that people do to their server ignore ‘dot’ files and they things don’t work as expected

Sam D

By: hydra12

hydra12 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:03:52 +0000

Great tips! I had trouble when I upgraded an app, too. I took the easy way out – I baked a new app and copied config/core to my old app. I also use non-standard deployments, and even have cake running on IIS, with little problems.