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CakePHP

I downloaded the 1.3.0 RC4 as the 1.2.7 release threw some deprecated warning in my face.

In unpacked the release into my htdocs directory and started my apache and pointed my browser to localhost. If the apache2 is properly configured it should already output some cakePHP information.

I got some errors:

/tmp/cache/ is not writable

The solution is to make the cache directory writable. I made the tmp directory writable for everyone, by adding the permissions using Finder's information menu.

Please change the value of 'Security.salt'

Edit app/config/core.php file and change the value of the string where it says:

Configure::write('Security.salt', 'DYhG93b0qyJfIxfs2guVoUubWwvniR2G0FgaC9mi');

I kept the length but put in something else.

Please change the value of 'Security.cipher'

Again goto app/config/core.php file and change the value of the string where it says:

Configure::write('Security.cipherSeed', '76859309657453542496749683645');

My database wasn't properly configured

Your database configuration file is NOT present.

Rename the file database.php.default to database.php and set the parameters in it according to your setup. I had some big troubles getting my local development setup to work. I got access via my phpMyAdmin installation but cakePHP kept on complaining.

In the end I used:

var $default = array(
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'persistent' => false,
    'host' => '127.0.0.1',
    'login' => 'cake_blog_user',
    'password' => 'cake_blog_password',
    'database' => 'cake_blog',
    'prefix' => '',
);

When I used localhost as my host I couldn't connect even If I added the socket at /tmp/mysql.sock as the port (which works for my Sequel Pro)

I also had to create a virtual host in /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd-vhosts.conf (keep in mind to activate the extra conf file in httpd.conf by uncommenting #Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf) that pointed to the cake php webroot, as css and images weren't loaded properly:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot "/opt/local/apache2/htdocs/cake_blog/app/webroot"
    ServerName karmariders
    ErrorLog "logs/cake_blog-error_log"
    CustomLog "logs/cake_blog-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

And the according entry in /etc/hosts

# My local aliases
127.0.0.1	cake_blog