Magento helloworld tutorial

Question

We're working on Alan Storm's tutorial: Magento Controller Dispatch and Hello World on Magento 1.5.0.0.

at the step:

Clear your config cache, and load the following URL
http://exmaple.com/helloworld/index/index

and it produces a page not found error, as follows:

Whoops, our bad...

The page you requested was not found, and we have a fine guess why.

• If you typed the URL directly, please make sure the spelling is correct.
• If you clicked on a link to get here, the link is outdated.

Two of us are working on this. One of us on a Linux platform, the second on Mac OS X 10.6.7. The same "page not found" error on both platforms. We both have double-checked each other's tutorial code by comparison to Alan's article. It seems that something is remiss in the tutorial code in that it would not work on two independent platforms.

What is the best way to move ahead with debugging something like this?

Answer 1

First check the module is active, at the very least it should appear in System > Configuration > Advanced > Disable Module's Output or use Alan's Module List.

Next, double check for typos in the controller class and pay particular attention to the case. In the config frontname should be frontName (a capital N is often overlooked).

Answer 2

I had the same problem , Double check your /path/to/magento/app/etc/modules/Module_Name.xml , I had the codePool set to "community" and placed my extension in "local" directory this caused the 404 issue, when I changed the codePool value to "local" everything worked