This has to be a FAQ, but I can't find a CakePHP FAQ anywhere so here goes anyway: can CakePHP run on a *nix system in a user account? That is, with a URL such as www.anyoldhost.com/~username/myapp. It's pretty crucial that I know this as although I've full control over my localhost installation I don't have root privileges on our institutional Unix system and will have to run Cake apps in user accounts. If it can run in user accounts, are there any special configs that need to be applied?
This has come to mind because I've been trying the Sitepoint Notes tutorial (http://articles.sitepoint.com/print/application-development- cakephp|Sitepoint tutorial) on a Macbook running OS/X and XAMPP. If I put Cake into Users/username/Sites/cake_1.2.5 and try the URL localhost/~username/cake_1.2.5/ in a browser, it fails with a 404 if .htaccess is present in Cake root on account of the rewrite directive. Removing .htaccess displays index.php ok but without a rewrite the tutorial falls apart (the URL localhost/~username/ cake_1.2.5/notes/ fails, for instance). On localhost I could install cakePHP as root user for testing, but there'd be little point in testing if I couldn't deploy it on our institutional server. If there is a FAQ do please point me to it as I don't like asking RTFFAQ questions. Thanks. Fred University of Nottingham Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
