Installing CakePHP: Difference between revisions

The uniform server doesn't "install" so much as you just unpack it. I recommend unpacking it in the root of a drive and not buried somewhere in a special "my documents" or desktop folder, so like, "c:\". Once you have unpacked it, you have to follow the instructions that come with the php4 plugin and the unitray. I prefer to install the php4 plugin because, although cake runs on php5, most hosting services do not run php5, so i want to make sure my development environment is the same just in case there are any issues (especially with vendor classes). anyway it's simple: you just replace some crap into the uniserver/diskw/usr/local/php folder and change one line in your apache's httpd.conf (all described in the plugin's readme). installing the unitray is also easy, but to make the unitray compatible with uniserver 3.3 (not 3.2) you have to change one line in the uniserver\diskw\plugins\UniTray\unitray.ini file from "Start.bat" to "Server_Start.bat" under the "StartUniServer" section. no biggie, and then we get to use the ultra-handy shortcuts on the uniserver system tray icon. you can also launch the unitray now and/or make a shortcut in your startup items folder if you like.

from here you unpack cake into your document root, so that inside your www directory you have a "cake" folder and your various app folders, which won't be named "app" unless you only have one project. done this way, i don't think you even have to edit the app/webroot/index.php file (you can split up the cake files any way you want, in production for example, you may want only the app/webroot folder's contents to be in your hosting space's public_html folder, and the app folder and cake folders to be in your non-public user folder, in which case you will have to edit the app/webroot/index.php in at least one place -- see the cake site for instructions on all kinds of different filesystem configurations, but remember, you should not have to edit the .htaccess files or anything in the cake folder or anything other than the three constants in the index.php file in app/webroot to get cake working). next, edit your app/config/database.config file, and start baking (ie: open a command prompt inside w:/www/cake/scripts/ and type: "w:\usr\local\php\php.exe bake.php -help" or just "php.exe bake.php -help" if you did the path setting step above).