The best article I've seen on getting everything to work properly on OS X is at http://www.procata.com/blog/archives/2007/10/28/working-with-php-5-in-mac-os-x-105/
Since Mac OS X includes Apache and PHP (at least since 10.5), all you need to do is enable it. He goes through step by step On Dec 17, 7:23 am, Me <[email protected]> wrote: > I struggled with the "unformatted black text on a white background" all night > last night. I had the same .htaccess problem. Once I put the correct file > into the root web folder... wahlah... > I open my email today to find that you had the same problem, finding the same > answer. We were struggling at the same time... > I should have waited until today where I could have just read your answer... > lol. > Thanks! > wbj wrote:I'm very new to CakePHP, but to Mac OS X, PHP or Apache > Mod_Rewrite. I had problems getting the initial CakePHP installation to show > the styled landing page; instead, I saw unstyled black-on-white text. To > install CakePHP, I downloaded the appropriate .dmg file, then Finder-dragged > the image file's contents into a directory in my web root. What I finally > remembered is that hidden files, such as ".htaccess", are invisible to the > Finder. Once I remembered that, I opened the ".htaccess" file with TextEdit > and saved it to the directory under webroot. This fixed my problem! Hopefully > this will help you too! On Dec 17, 1:38 am, Kyle > Decot<[email protected]>wrote:I also forgot to mention that you must > uncomment the line that looks like #LoadModule rewrite_module > libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
