url to requestflowtest is not working

Question

I have gone through this tutorial on youtube

Quick start to magento customization - part 1

As I don't have knowledge on php, I understood only the configuration layout part.

The video says that if we type localhost/magento/requestflowtest, we will see a page saying Helloworld. but I am getting error "404 not found".

What I have done by going through the tutorial is as follows:

• In app/code/local --> created a folder name "Practice" (case sensitive)
• In app/code/local/Practice --> created a new folder name "ControllerTest"
• In app/code/local/Practice/ControllerTest/ --> created a new folder name "etc"
• In app/code/local/Practice/ControllerTest/etc --> created a xml file "config.xml" . The content in it is as follows:

config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0."?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Practice_ControllerTest>
            <version>0.0.1</version>
        </Practice_ControllerTest>
    </modules>
    <frontend>
        <routers>
            <test_controller>
                <use>standard</use>
                <args>
                    <module>Practice_ControllerTest</module>
                    <frontName>requestflowtest</frontName>
                </args>
            </test_controller>
        </routers>
    </frontend>
</config>

• Then in app/etc/modules --> Created a new xml file with name "Practice_ControllerTest.xml" and added the following content:

Practice_ControllerTest.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Practice_ControllerTest>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
        </Practice_ControllerTest>
    </modules>
</config>

• Then in app/code/local/Practice/ControllerTest --> added a new folder "controllers"
• In app/code/local/Practice/ControllerTest/controllers --> added a new php file with name "IndexController.php" and added the following content to it:

IndexController.php

<?php
class Practice_ControllerTest_IndexController
extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{
    /*
     * General report action 
     */
    public function indexAction(){
        echo "<h1>Hello World!!</h1>";
    }
}

What could I have been doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It would appear you have an extra . in your config.xml first line

<?xml version="1.0."?>

Should be

<?xml version="1.0"?>

I only noticed this when I copied your code across to one of my magento instances that has $_SERVER['MAGE_IS_DEVELOPER_MODE'] enabled. This showed me that there was an error with the xml.