as many of you probably know, if you have apache's userdir module loaded, you can put your web pages on /home/user/public_html , and access them with the url: http://localhost/~user/ . I really prefer this, so all my web pages are on my personal home, but how to configure cakephp to work with these paths, i got a hard time with this, but finally got it!. here's how:
in case you don't have apache2's userdir module:
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sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.load
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
you need the rewrite module also... (this could be done with the same method used for userdir)
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sudo a2enmod rewrite
Now lets edit some apache files...
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sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-enable/000-default
inside the first two <directory></directory> tags, change the AllowOverride lines:
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<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All // change here
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All // change here
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All // change here
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All // change here
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>
do the same on /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
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<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride All // change here
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
</Directory>
AllowOverride All // change here
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
</Directory>
Now you need to restart you apache2 server...
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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
i'll assume you've already downloaded cakephp latest release or that you know where you can find it
unpack the downloaded file in /home/user/public_html/
rename the extracted folder (thats the name of your application)
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cd /home/user/public_html/application_name
edit the .htaccess file so it look like these:
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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
RewriteBase /~user/application_name/
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
RewriteBase /~user/application_name/
</IfModule>
now point your browser to http://localhost/~user/application_name and you show see cakephp's default page
good luck!
