Cannot access backoffice anymore (with last updates (?))

[Gabri]

Hello,

Some days ago I've tried to update a qacms local website with composer. It updated it (after that I had some problems with permission files, but it seemed ok, no errors on updating). But from that moment I couldn't access backoffice anymore. I tried a new fresh installation just now ...nothing, these are the errors (in errors.log):

2015-08-24 09:39:50 Error: Fatal Error (1): Call to undefined method Cake\View\ViewBuilder::viewPath() in [/opt/gabri/Web/ial2/tmp/aop/ial2/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 350]
Trace:
Cake\Error\BaseErrorHandler::handleFatalError() - CORE/src/Error/BaseErrorHandler.php, line 192
Cake\Error\BaseErrorHandler::Cake\Error\{closure}() - CORE/src/Error/BaseErrorHandler.php, line 91
[main] - [internal], line ??

2015-08-24 09:39:50 Error: [Cake\Error\FatalErrorException] Call to undefined method Cake\View\ViewBuilder::viewPath()
Request URL: /ial2/en_US/login
Stack Trace:
#0 /opt/gabri/Web/ial2/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/BaseErrorHandler.php(91): Cake\Error\BaseErrorHandler->handleFatalError(1, 'Call to undefin...', '/opt/gabri/Web/...', 350)
#1 [internal function]: Cake\Error\BaseErrorHandler->Cake\Error\{closure}()
#2 {main}

After a fresh installatinon the "administer your site" like at the end of installation process call the page '/ial2/en_US/admin' and I get 404: The requested address '/ial2/en_US/admin' was not found on this server.

Instead the errors reported above is for the url '/ial2/en_US/login' (calling the 'Sign in' link in the dropdown menu in the top right).

Problems are just mine?

Thanks

[quickapps]

Hi, Sounds like a cache problem, have you tried removing /tmp/aop directory? (actually try removing recursively everything within /tmp

[Gabri]

Tried. Same result. I don't think it could be a permission problem of filesystem (but I don't exclude at 100%. I updated and checked it, they seems good) ?

[quickapps]

Oh I see,

I think it is related to CakePHP. Looking closer the error message you've provided: Cake\View\ViewBuilder::viewPath() ...that class belongs to CakePHP 3.1 branch.

Try altering your "composer.json" file: https://github.com/quickapps/cms/blob/2.0/composer.json#L21

For instance, change "~3.0" to just "3.0.12"

[Gabri]

I tried with 3.0.12, 3.0.11, 3.0.10... but nothing, same result. Probably a stupid question, but calling composer update from /vendor/quickapps/cms (i can see the updating of cakephp/cakephp) should change sources on /vendor/cakephp/cakephp? /vendor/cakephp/cakphp seems on version 3.1.0-beta2. Another thing strange to me is... I downloaded zip sources from https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tags from different versions ...but I cannot find one with class file ViewBuilder.php (namespace Cake\View)... File that I have on /vendors/cakephp/cakephp/src/View (?).

Maybe the problem I encountered is related to https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/7237

Thanks for your time

[quickapps]

First you should edit the composer.json file as described before. BUT then you should call composer from /ROOT directory, that is where you can find webroot and this other file.

You should never call composer within /vendor, also you can update cakephp only as follow:

$ cd /opt/gabri/Web/ial2/
$ composer update cakephp/cakephp

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CakePHP's ViewBuilder.php belongs to branch 3.1 which still under development (beta-2), this particular file was added after beta-2 release, that is why you can't find this file in any tagged version.

As QACMS still under development its "minimum-stability" is currently set to DEV, that is why running composer update will cause to download CakePHP dev branches as well.

This commit 2a51e7b91b260d48d5e0ae14b7fd4113c8149eee should solve this and similar problems.

Regards

[Gabri]

Thank you very much, now it's clear (and it works!)

Little note: surely you saw it, there is a warning updating QACMS:

Package lisachenko/go-aop-php is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use goaop/framework instead.