CAKEPHP - Change default path to webroot

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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'

Farray · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28 16:52:22Z

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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.

answered Feb 28, 2012 at 16:52

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Stewie Over a year ago

Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'cars', 'action' => 'index')); That's the only thing I edited in my routes.

Farray Over a year ago

@Stewie and you get this error when you directly navigate to your site? Or only after clicking a link on your site...?

Stewie Over a year ago

When I go to localhost/dropbox/my_site it tells me dropbox controller doesn't exist. The cakephp installation is in my_site folder. -the second is case-sensitive When I go to localhost/Dropbox/My_Site I get: Call to a member function find() on a non-object in C:\wamp\www\Dropbox\My_Site\app\Controller\CarsController.php on line 10

Stewie Over a year ago

Yep, that was it. When I go to localhost/dropbox/my_site it tells me dropbox controller doesn't exist, but as it seems, the url is case sensitive. When I go to localhost/Dropbox/My_Site I get another error, but that's just from some naming conventions. I'm up and running. Thanks!

Jason McCreary · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28 16:51:09Z

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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.

answered Feb 28, 2012 at 16:51

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Stewie Over a year ago

I don't have a separate site set up for this development site in my web server. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong. I'm using wamp and I just placed my dropbox folder inside, with a folder for my application inside my dropbox folder.

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