CakePHP - Router::url() generating url relative to current page

Question

I'm trying to replace all of my static routes with the CakePHP 3.8 Router::url() method.

On my local environment, when accessing the the below code from the manage/lender-products/read/2 route, I get the expected results of /manage/lenders from the below code:

\Cake\Routing\Router::url(['controller' => 'Lenders', 'action' => 'index'])

However, on production (bref.sh/AWS Lambda/PHP 7.4), I get the unexpected result of /manage/lender-products/read/manage/lenders.

It appears that in my production environment, the URL is being generated and is including the current pages url in the end result.

Answer 1

In case you do not set a custom base path for the App.base config option, CakePHP will try to figure the possible base path out on its own, based on $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], so it's likely that one or both of these contain unexpected values in your AWS environment.

The simple fix would be to manually set the base path in your config/app.php. If your application doesn't actually live in a public subdirectory (ie in case webroot is your document root), then you should set the path to an empty string, otherwise provide the path, like /my/app (with a leading slash, but without a trailing slash!).

See also

• Cookbook > Configuration > General Configuration