CakePHP Tutorial:Installing CakePHP on Ubuntu

February 10th, 2009

Yes, this is another cakephp on ubuntu. Most of them were not detail enough for beginners. So here I am and here is my version of installing cakephp on ubuntu.

  1. Install Apache Server, MySQL, PHP 
    sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5
  2. Download CakePHP 1.2
    Go to http://cakephp.org and download latest cakephp. I downloaded cake_1.2.1.8004.tar.bz2
  3. Copy and extract to web root
    Open your terminal where you put cakephp you just downloaded.

    sudo cp cake_1.2.1.8004.tar.bz2 /var/www/
cd /var/www
sudo tar -xvf cake_1.2.1.8004.tar.bz2
sudo mv cake_1.2.1.8004 cakephp
  4. Change tmp folder permisssion 
    sudo chmod -R 777 cakephp/app/tmp
  5. Enable mod-rewrite 
    sudo a2enmod rewrite
  6. Open file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All 
    sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
    <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>
  7. Restart Apache 
    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  8. Open your browser and type address http://localhost/cakephp/ and you’ll see CakePHP message

If you can see CakePHP message in colour, then you have cakephp running in your hand. Congratulation.

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