(Not sure if this belongs here or on webmasters; please move if necessary.)

I'm a total newbie to Cake and not much better with apache; I've done a lot of PHP but always with a server that's already been set up by someone else. So I'm going through the basic blog tutorial, and it says:

A Note On mod_rewrite Occasionally a new user will run in to mod_rewrite issues, so I'll mention them marginally here. If the Cake welcome page looks a little funny (no images or css styles), it probably means mod_rewrite isn't functioning on your system. Here are some tips to help get you up and running:

Make sure that an .htaccess override is allowed: in your httpd.conf, you should have a section that defines a section for each Directory on your server. Make sure the AllowOverride is set to All for the correct Directory.

Make sure you are editing the system httpd.conf rather than a user- or site-specific httpd.conf.

For some reason or another, you might have obtained a copy of CakePHP without the needed .htaccess files. This sometimes happens because some operating systems treat files that start with '.' as hidden, and don't copy them. Make sure your copy of CakePHP is from the downloads section of the site or our SVN repository.

Make sure you are loading up mod_rewrite correctly! You should see something like LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/httpd/mod_rewrite.so and AddModule mod_rewrite.c in your httpd.conf."

I'm using XAMPP on linux. I've found my httpd.conf file in opt/lampp/ etc, but am not sure what I need to do with it. I've searched for "rewrite", and there's only one line:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

There's nothing about AddModule mod_rewrite.c.

Do I just create a Directory section for the directory I've installed Cake in and set AlllowOverride to All? (I created a separate subdirectory of my wwwroot and installed in there, since I also have installs of Joomla and CodeIgniter.) Is there anything else I need to do? My download of Cake did come with two htaccess-type files (._.htaccess and .htaccess) - do I need to 开发者_开发知识库do anything with them?

Thanks for any help you can provide to this non-server-admin.

EDIT TO ADD virtual host sample:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
    ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
    ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Step 1. You should have mod_rewrite enabled, check using <?php phpinfo();

Step 2. Check AllowOverride

// I believe you already did that. 
// Make sure you are doing it for the correct webroot!
<Directory />
   AlllowOverride to All
</Directory>

Step 3. Check your default .htaccess files are there in directories /mypro, /mypro/app, /mypro/app/webroot.

Step 4. .htaccess may need path fixes depending upon your cake project installation.

 e.g. project url http://localhost/mypro/app/webroot/
 /mypro/app/webroot/.htacess
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$ mypro/app/webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) mypro/app/webroot/$1 [L]
 </IfModule>

EDIT

If you are trying to setup it as local domains, Setup local domains (on windows) with WAMP configured Note: this may be tweaked a little for different kind of installations Find your hosts file (mine is located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) Insert this to bottom

# save and close this file named hosts
127.0.0.1       mypro.localhost

To test hostname open command prompt and run ping mypro.localhost # If ping is good then move on

Now open your apache config file 
httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf (my files are located at)

C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\httpd.conf
# uncomment line below
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
# Insert virtual host entries like this, trim dummy entries (if any)

# Changing DocumentRoot
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/mypro/app/webroot"
    ServerName mypro.localhost
</VirtualHost>

Save and close files

Create directory C:/wamp/www/mypro (if you haven’t created before)

ModRewrite enables Apache to manipulate request URLs before it handles the request. For example, if you wanted to store your images in /website_images but you wanted to reference them in your HTML as /img/donkey.jpg you could use ModRewrite to change all requests from /img/* to /website_images/*. The way that it handles this is through Regular Expressions, which have entire books written about them.

As far as Apache goes, there are lots of configuration "directives" (aka options or settings). The most crucial to learn about when you're running your own server are going to be the VirtualHost ones. They allow Apache to handle requests to your server's IP address and route them to the correct website based on the hostname (the domain, essentially). You should place any website-specific directives within that website's VirtualHost configuration, including your ModRewrite rules. Note: you can also load additional directives from a .htaccess file in the website's directory, but this is suboptimal (and requires AllowOverride to be set. If you have access to httpd.conf and the related VirtualHost directives, you should use them instead.

It looks like Apache is already configured to load the ModRewrite module, so you don't need to change that. In the VirtualHost directives for your new CakePHP website, you can use the following directives under the <Directory /path/to/your/website> to setup ModRewrite:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

It looks big and scary, but what that does is tells Apache to direct all requests that it can't handle (because the resources don't exist) to index.php. When that happens, CakePHP takes over and routes the request to the appropriate controller and action.

I'm not familiar with how XAMPP is configured, so I can't tell you where those VirtualHost definitions are going to be. Perhaps someone else can chime in here…