Routes, how to handle empty strings? [SOLVED, with hack]

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
I don't see why you would need a route here, any URI starting with pages would be routed to your pages controller automatically.

The issue is probably that if you don't have a cake type in the URI, there is no match on the route rule, which should make it fall through to the default controller (or show a 404 if there is no default controller).