Re: Can CakePHP run in a user account?

Yes you can. Just put all inside your public_html directory (assuming that user directories are enabled) or a subdirectory of public_html.

It might be that .htaccess files are not handled for user directories. If so, check the file app/config/core.php and enable rewriting by CakePHP.

On 4 jan 2010, at 21:29, Fred Riley wrote:

> 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
>
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