This tutorial assumes that you installed the basic LAMP stack that ubuntu comes with. It is also assumed that this is a development installation of CakePHP
1) Download CakePHP. My directory after I uncompress it is called ‘cake_1.2.1.8004′
*optional
2) Rename ‘cake_1.2.1.8004′ to ‘cake’
3) Move the ‘cake’ directory into ‘/var/www/’ so your full path becomes ‘/var/www/cake/’
4) Enable mod_rewrite
username@ubuntu:/$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!
5) Enable appropriate rules in ‘/etc/apache2/sites-available/default’
username@ubuntu:/$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
5a) Change the following
Directory /
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
/Directory
To
Directory /
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Directory
5b) Change the following
Directory /var/www/
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
Directory
To
Directory /var/www/
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
/Directory
6) Restart apache2
username@ubuntu:/$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
default screenshot
Thx, it was very helpful for me, a newbie in linux, but it worked without changing the
“Directory /” part.
Hi,
I tried it, but it didn’t work. I had Cake up and running before, but upgraded my machine to kubuntu 9.04 and now I am desperately trying to make it work. I get either an 403 or an 500 error.
Any idea what else I could try?
mod rewrite is loaded and works in general, but not for my application, which is located at /var/www/budget <- that is my application
Jane
Jane,
There are so many variables that there is no easy answer.
Could you post the contents of your ‘/etc/apache2/sites-available/’ directory?
Also, are you running virtual hosts?
foo@foo:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ ls -l
insgesamt 28
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 984 2010-02-20 23:07 default
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 985 2010-02-20 23:07 default~
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1001 2010-02-20 22:46 default.cake
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1001 2010-02-20 22:55 default.orig
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 7364 2009-08-18 15:01 default-ssl
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1008 2010-02-20 15:32 default.typo3
foo@foo:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ ls -lA
insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-11-10 23:38 000-default -> ../sites-available/default
I don’t run virtual hosts ist is just my PC which I use for development
Thanks Jane
Sorry should have mentioned that I use ubuntu 9.10
Jane