Newbie - what do I need to do with httpd.conf to make CakePHP work correctly?
- by EmmyS
(Not sure if this belongs here or on webmasters; please move if necessary.)
I'm a total newbie to Cake and not much better with apache; I've done
a lot of PHP but always with a server that's already been set up by
someone else. So I'm going through the basic blog tutorial, and it
says:
A Note On mod_rewrite
Occasionally a new user will run in to mod_rewrite issues, so I'll
mention them marginally here. If the Cake welcome page looks a little
funny (no images or css styles), it probably means mod_rewrite isn't
functioning on your system. Here are some tips to help get you up and
running:
Make sure that an .htaccess override is allowed: in your httpd.conf,
you should have a section that defines a section for each Directory on
your server. Make sure the AllowOverride is set to All for the correct
Directory.
Make sure you are editing the system httpd.conf rather than a user- or
site-specific httpd.conf.
For some reason or another, you might have obtained a copy of CakePHP
without the needed .htaccess files. This sometimes happens because
some operating systems treat files that start with '.' as hidden, and
don't copy them. Make sure your copy of CakePHP is from the downloads
section of the site or our SVN repository.
Make sure you are loading up mod_rewrite correctly! You should see
something like LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/httpd/mod_rewrite.so
and AddModule mod_rewrite.c in your httpd.conf."
I'm using XAMPP on linux. I've found my httpd.conf file in opt/lampp/
etc, but am not sure what I need to do with it. I've searched for
"rewrite", and there's only one line:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
There's nothing about AddModule mod_rewrite.c.
Do I just create a Directory section for the directory I've installed
Cake in and set AlllowOverride to All? (I created a separate
subdirectory of my wwwroot and installed in there, since I also have
installs of Joomla and CodeIgniter.) Is there anything else I need to
do? My download of Cake did come with two htaccess-type files
(._.htaccess and .htaccess) - do I need to do anything with them?
Thanks for any help you can provide to this non-server-admin.
EDIT TO ADD virtual host sample:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
ServerName dummy-host.example.com
ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
