How to install cakephp on localhost?

I开发者_开发技巧 wanna to know how to install cakephp on localhost? Please explain me.

I usually make an apache and mysql installation on a linuxbox. I can use windows too, however I do not recommend it ;) So, I usually make a new entry into the /etc/hosts file to make a sitename available to cakephp.

127.0.0.1   localhost caketest.local

next step to copy all cakephp files into a subdirectory inside /home/myusername/public_html/caketest

    app
    cake
    index.php
    plugins
    README
    vendors
    .htaccess

then I set up the site to apache (not neccessary),

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/home/myusername/public_html/caketest"
    ServerName caketest.local  
    # This should be omitted in the production environment
    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

    <Directory "/home/myusername/public_html/caketest">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

restart apache. you also need to edit the .htaccess files and place a RewriteBase directive with hte path to the actual directory, e.g.

RewriteBase /~myusername/caketest

create a database, set the db connection in cake config files and that's all. you can point your browser to http://caketest.local if you do not want a test site url you can skip hosts, and apache vhost creation, but the url to use should be http:/localhost/~myusername/caketest

another important thing is to enable userdir modul in apache, and also check if using php is enabled in userdirs too.

If you're on windows, get WAMP. Install it, then download CakePHP in C:\wamp\www\. Extract CakePHP in that folder so you have a folder kind of like this: C:\wamp\www\cakephp\. Now you can access the installation by going to localhost/cakephp/.

An old article of mine but still quite relevant:

Installing CakePHP

Assuming you have a *AMP setup (Apache+MySQL+PHP), just copy the files to your htdocs folder. On Ubuntu, it's /var/www, so you would create /var/www/myApp and copy the whole Cake structure into there, ending up with something like:

/var/www/myApp/app/
/var/www/myApp/cake/
/var/www/myApp/vendors/
/var/www/myApp/index.php
/var/www/myApp/.htaccess

Then you can access your app by the url: http://localhost/myApp