I had the same problem. Took me forever to figure it out. You can also turn on hidden files in your finder.
http://www.macworld.com/article/51830/2006/07/showallfinder.html What I ended up doing is creating these commands in automator as a plugin. Now I can just pull up my right click menu and I have a "Show Hidden Files" and "Hide Hidden Files". I'm pretty sure this is your problem. You just not getting that one .htaccess file in your web root directory. On Dec 17, 1:44 am, wbj <[email protected]> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
