Cakephp Upgrade from 1.3 to 2.1

Question

UPDATE: the question i asked doesn\'t quite cover how deep i went in doing this upgrade! If you stumble on this, i hope the answer i pushed is useful to you

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Answer 1

I had this same problem after using the Cake Shell Upgrade tool. While our web app is large, we never customized the index.php file.

Replacing our myapp/app/webroot/index.php with the newly downloaded CakePHP cakephp-2.3.4/app/webroot/index.php solved this issue for me.

I'm not sure why the CakePHP Upgrade Shell or it's instructions don't specify to change the index.php file, but as @bharal's lengthy and great answer shows, there is a lot more work to do since the Upgrade Shell doesn't do everything.