cakephp adding create ?url= in form create

Question

I am debugging using the security component. I have a very simple login form on my home page and when I create the form using:

echo $this->Form->create('User', array('class'=>'form','url' => array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login')));

there is NO appending to url, that is when I look at fields in FormHelper $fields, the first element looks like this:

[0] => /users/login

However, when posting my credentials, the _validationPost in the security component looks like this:

[0] => /users/login?url=users%2Flogin

The request gets Black-Holed.

If I call login from the User Controller as: /users/login I get:

[0] => /users/login?url=users%2Flogin

and I don't get black-holed as my form create looks like this:

echo $this->Form->create('User', array('class'=>'form'));

I'm using Max OS X (Mavericks). I'm not sure if this is a configuration issue.

Thanks for any help or guidance.

Answer 1

The answer to this issue was indeed related to mod_rewrite. I was using an older version of .htaccess (from cakephp version 1.x). Once I updated the .htaccess in the webfoot folder, my issue was resolved.