CakePHP Tutorial:Installing CakePHP on Ubuntu

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.