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Stewie
Stewie

Reputation: 117

CAKEPHP - Change default path to webroot

I'm new to cakephp and I'm having some problems with setting up a local development server. I have my cake install located at http://localhost/dropbox/my_site/. However, when I try to visit that url, it tells me the dropbox controller isn't set up. How do I tell CakePHP to start in my_site rather than /localhost/?

I've tried adding connect(/localhost/dropbox/*) to the routes, but it seems like it still looks for models in the wrong location.

I tried editing index.php in app/webroot but all the examples show how to write the directory in linux format rather than windows, so I'm not sure how to structure 'ROOT'

Upvotes: 4

Views: 23129

Answers (2)

Farray
Farray

Reputation: 8548

CakePHP will work happily in a subdirectory - I have several Cake sites running at http://localhost/{appname} on my dev machine.

Cake defines its ROOT directory in the root index.php file. If you look inside you'll see the following lines:

define('ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));
define('WEBROOT_DIR', 'webroot');
define('WWW_ROOT', ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . WEBROOT_DIR . DS);

Since it's taking ROOT from dirname(__FILE__), it will always point to that file's location.

I suspect you have problems in your routing file. Did you create any custom routing rules to account for being located in a subdirectory? If you did, your cake install may be trying to access http://localhost/dropbox/my_site/dropbox/... and that's why you're getting that error.

Upvotes: 6

Jason McCreary
Jason McCreary

Reputation: 73041

This likely doesn't have so much to do with CakePHP as it does with your web server.

If dropbox is your document root, it should be mapped accordingly in your web server configuration. For example using DocumentRoot in Apache.

Upvotes: 0

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