Admin index route ignored w/ CakePHP 2.1

Question

I'm working on a CakePHP 2.1 project and I have an issue concerning the "homepage" for admin panel.

When I enter : mysite.com/admin I have a message telling me "AdminController cannot be found".

I declared this route in config/routes.php :

Router::connect('/admin', array('controller' => 'mycontroller', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => true));

And when I enter mysite.com/admin/mycontroller as URI, it works. Do you have an idea ?

Thank you in advance.

Edit | My routes.php file :`

/**
 * Here, we are connecting '/' (base path) to controller called 'Pages',
 * its action called 'display', and we pass a param to select the view file
 * to use (in this case, /app/View/Pages/home.ctp)...
 */
    Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home'));
/**
 * ...and connect the rest of 'Pages' controller's URLs.
 */
    Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display'));

/**
 * Load all plugin routes. See the CakePlugin documentation on
 * how to customize the loading of plugin routes.
 */
    CakePlugin::routes();

/**
 * Load the CakePHP default routes. Only remove this if you do not want to use
 * the built-in default routes.
 */
    require CAKE . 'Config' . DS . 'routes.php';


// Custom routes
Router::connect('/admin', array('controller' => 'jobapplications', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => true));

Answer 1

As suspected, there are conflicting routes, namely the default routes provided by the core, which you are including via

require CAKE . 'Config' . DS . 'routes.php';

before defining your /admin route.

The defaults connect various routes that can cloak yours, for example:

Router::connect("/{$prefix}/:controller", $indexParams);

or

Router::connect('/:controller', array('action' => 'index'));

Long story short, order matters, move your route definition above the inclusion of the default routes.