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paezinc
paezinc

Reputation: 339

Running a CakePHP project on Localhost

I have downloaded a CakePHP project from an online server and need to make it work locally, to do some changes. I'm facing a problem similar to this one and have tried all possible solutions, with no luck.

Here's the situations:

I have mod_rewrite loaded (phpinfo()) together with the 3 .htaccess files, but still experience this problem.

Is there any known issue that I can explore to fix my site? Please redirect me to any guides or tutorials that you may feel relevant to my issue

Upvotes: 3

Views: 15011

Answers (2)

sipiatti
sipiatti

Reputation: 914

Use RewriteBase directive in .htaccess.

e.g my dev space is on my localhost, is located in /home/ati/public_html/cakerbs, under a subdir in my userdir. The rewriteBase looks like as follows in the root of the cake:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /~ati/cakerbs
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

in the app directory .htacces:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /~ati/cakerbs
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

in the webroot directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /~ati/cakerbs
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Upvotes: 2

G3vie
G3vie

Reputation: 21

Check your XAMPP apache settings, it's very likely your current config is blocking things like the .htaccess files (I know EasyPHP does this by default with Cake). What I do to get around this error is to add a VirtualHost to my config like such:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/xpto/"
ServerName xpto.dev
ServerAlias www.xpto.dev
ErrorLog "logs/xpto-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/xtpo-access.log" common
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

It may be better to update your whole config properly, but seeing as it's a dev environment for me, this does just fine. (Don't forget to add any hosts to your windows hosts file)

Then just open your favourite browser and go to http://xpto.dev/ and it should load up.

This may help your more: http://ailoo.net/2008/07/set-up-multiple-virtual-hosts-on-xampp-for-windows/

Upvotes: 0

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