Looping on CakePHP 4

[rkhe]

Encountering a loading loop on a fresh install of CakePHP 4 with CakeDC/Users.
No other configuration for CakeDC/Users except adding $this->addPlugin(\CakeDC\Users\Plugin::class); in Application.php

Loading loop on those 3 files, cake.css, normalize.min.css & milligram.min.css (from terminal):

[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64084 [200]: /css/cake.css
[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64087 [200]: /css/normalize.min.css
[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64088 [200]: /css/milligram.min.css
[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64089 [200]: /css/cake.css
[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64092 [200]: /css/normalize.min.css
[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64093 [200]: /css/milligram.min.css
[Tue Aug 25 19:55:13 2020] ::1:64094 [200]: /css/cake.css

Other notes:

• It seems only reproducible on Chromium-based browser, tested on Google Chrome, Edge(Chromium) & Brave but not on Firefox.
• CakePHP 4.0.1, CakeDC/Users 9.0

[rkhe]

Found a workaround.

Copy the permissions.php file from /vendor/cakedc/users/config to /config directory.
However, this should already use the permission configuration from /vendor directory and run out of the box, right?

[steinkel]

Please check the logs, access log of your webserver, what's the URI looping around?

The default configuration of the plugin will redirect to /users/login which is a page NOT requiring authentication to display.

[Theaxiom]

I am experiencing the same issue and copying the permissions.php as suggested above by @rkhe has temporarily resolved the issue, although this is not ideal. What is the root cause of this issue?

I am wondering if it has something to do with the BootstrapUI plugin installed. To reproduce, create a new CakePHP 4 application and issue the following:

• Configure config/app_local.php and setup database connection
• composer require cakedc/users
• bin/cake migrations migrate -p CakeDC/Users

src/Application.php:

        $this->addPlugin(\CakeDC\Users\Plugin::class);
        // Uncomment the line below to load your custom users.php config file
        //Configure::write('Users.config', ['users']);

• bin/cake users addSuperuser

src/View/AppView.php:

        $this->loadHelper('CakeDC/Users.User');

• composer require friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui
• bin/cake plugin load BootstrapUI
• bin/cake bootstrap install
• bin/cake bootstrap modify_view
• bin/cake bootstrap copy_layouts

[Theaxiom]

This seems to be related and has a solution: #871

Another related issue for DebugKit: #870

It seems this is actually a documentation issue in the "Installation" guide for the Users plugin.