Over the past week I have been learning and working with Zend Framework on a new site im creating, 20DollarBanners.com. Everything has been working great all week on my windows machine, and I thought it was about time to upload to one of our live web servers for testing. As with most sites, as soon as I went from Windows to Linux all hell broke out. I got the following error, and couldn’t see anywhere in the code why it was happening.
exception ‘Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid controller specified (index)’ in /home/username/library/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php:249 Stack trace: #0 /home/username/library/Zend/Controller/Front.php(914): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http)) #1 /home/username/public_html/index.php(54): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch() #2 {main}
After a little playing around on my local machine, I managed to reproduce the same error, and found that it was a problem with the filenames of my controller files. I checked on the linux server, and everything looked in order apart from one small difference. The filename on the server was indexController instead of IndexController, the captial I made all the difference.
After googling the problem, all I found was a load of results with pages just showing the error message, so hopefully this blog post will be of use to anyone else who finds themselves in the same situation I did.
The following is the error msg. Seem to be everything right. Do not know why i got this error
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid controller specified (error)’ in /var/www/html/phpweb20/include/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php:241 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/phpweb20/include/Zend/Controller/Front.php(934): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http)) #1 /var/www/html/phpweb20/htdocs/index.php(17): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch() #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/phpweb20/include/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php on line 241
Does your ErrorController exist and the correct case on the filename?
Here is an basic error controller:
/**
* ErrorController - The default error controller class
*
* @author
* @version
*/
require_once 'Zend/Controller/Action.php';
class ErrorController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
/**
* This action handles
* - Application errors
* - Errors in the controller chain arising from missing
* controller classes and/or action methods
*/
public function errorAction()
{
$errors = $this->_getParam('error_handler');
switch ($errors->type) {
case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_CONTROLLER:
case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ACTION:
// 404 error -- controller or action not found
$this->getResponse()->setRawHeader('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
$this->view->title = 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found';
break;
default:
// application error; display error page, but don't change
// status code
$this->view->title = 'Application Error';
break;
}
$this->view->message = $errors->exception;
}
}
Hi Brooke, super model name btw : )
I have struggled with the same error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid controller specified (error)’ in C:\wamp\www\XXX\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php:241 Stack trace: #0 C:\wamp\www\XXX\library\Zend\Controller\Front.php(934): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http)) #1 C:\wamp\www\XXX\html\index.php(48): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch() #2 {main} thrown in C:\wamp\www\XXX\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php on line 241
And thank to you I gained some insight into the inner workings of the framework. But for me the issue was porting the include path in index.php from Windows to Unix and viceversa:
Windows version:
define(‘APPLICATION_PATH’, realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../application/’));
set_include_path(
APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/../library’
. PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()
Unix version:
define(‘APPLICATION_PATH’, realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘../application/’));
set_include_path(
APPLICATION_PATH . ‘../library’
. PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()
So just get rid off the first “/” and ta-da! no errors.
Alright I’ve gone mad! Now it works with the “/” on Unix go figure… arrg!
Had the same problems when deployed my project. Thanks! Your tip saved my day, I owe you one!
Hi,
you saved me a couple of additional minutes googling:)
IMPORTANT for DREAMWEAVER users:
I have changed name of my file from indexController.php to IndexController.php and i’ve uploaded it in Dreamweaver but i still had the same error.
After a while i’ve just checked remote folder and there were two files! indexController.php and IndexController.php
After deleting indexController.php problem was solved;D
Thanks!
thank you very much ! It works After indexController.php to IndexController.php .Buy in my appinon, the first captial should be lower? Why it is capital?
very thank you
The way you have described this is very thorough. I will link your blog page to mine.
thankyou Rafael
Thank you!!!!!!!
After searching for hours, this tip saved me.
Thanks and best regards,
Daniele.
你好，我遇到了相同的问题！hello，I have struggled with the same error.
我的英文很烂。。。my english is very poor,so I give my solution directly here。
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$controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$controller->setControllerDirectory(INCLUDE_PATH.’/Controllers’);
$controller->setParam(‘useDefaultControllerAlways’, true);