Question

Can someone point me to the CakePHP version I should download?

My server is unix-based, and my directory structure is something like this:
root/home/webadmin/app_name/html/index.php

Where should I put the stuff that gets downloaded?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Download last 1.3 version (1.3.11 currently). You can download from here: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/downloads. There’s a 2.0 version but it’s not yet finished.

Place it under /home/webadmin/your_cake_app/

Also, take a look at the book: http://book.cakephp.org/ Will help you.

EDIT:

First find your Document Root. You can do it this way:

<?php
$docRoot = getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT");
echo $docRoot; //Here it is
?>

After that, you uncompress the cakephp tgz and place it in there. If your document root is “/root/home/webadmin/app_name/html/” you place it under that html folder. The name of the folder in the tgz file must be something like “cake_###”, rename it to anything related with your project. So, recap:

cd /root/home/webadmin/app_name/html/
wget http://[CAKE_URL AND VERSION]
tar -xzf cake.1.3.11.tar.gz
mv cake_### myProject

Point your server to domain/myProject and you should see the cake home page