Cakephp installation: ubuntu with apache, php

[Chilarai Mushahary]

In this tutorial, I will explain cakephp1.3.x installation with ubuntu using apache2 and mysql

Step 1: Download packages. a)

sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5 php5-mysql apache2 mysql-server mysql-client

b)Download cakephp http://cakephp.org

Step 2: Configuration.Edit apache to be able to use cakephp

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

Look for :

  

<Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

Edit

AllowOverride None

to

AllowOverride All

. Save the file

Step 3: Enable apache rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Step 4: Restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 5: Extract the downloaded cakephp archive and save it to /var/www/cake

tar -xvzf cakephp.x.x.tar.gz
mv cakephp.x.x /var/www/cake

Step 6: Apply permissions to the cake folder

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/wwww/cake/app/tmp

Step 7: Edit database.php.default and renaming it to database.php in app/config/database.php.default

mv /var/www/cake/app/config/database.php.default /var/www/cake/app/config/database.php

Edit the parameters in the file according to your database config.

Step 8: Change your security salt values

sudo vi /var/www/cake/app/config/core.php

and edit the 'security salt' and 'cipher seed'.

Thats it. Enjoy using cakephp

[Chilarai Mushahary]

Also you need to install php and 'CURL'. Install like this

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

and restart apache