Question

I have cakephp installed in the root directory. site.com/

i want to install wordpress blog at site.com/blog

but since cakephp will redirect all urls i am not sure how to do it ?

Answer 1

From: http://dogmatic69.com/blog/development/7-using-other-apps-with-cakephp-htaccess-config

One thing that is asked quite a lot on #cakephp is how to use other apps alongside CakePHP, and the answer giving is normally pretty ugly. Stick the files/folders in side webroot/. Although that does work, its not very nice. So ill show you a little trick with .htaccess files.

The first (really simple way) is to use a .htaccess inside the sub folder. For example you can have a copy of Joomla! running alongside cake with no issues when you have the .htaccess for Joomla! enabled. If the app does not have one and/or you would not know what to put in the .htaccess file you have another option

Make Apache stop processing rewrites if it finds a request for your sub directory. This is done by adding a rule for the sub directory and then telling Apache it is the last rule to process. The .htaccess file you want to edit is the one found inside your APP directory. All you want to add is the following line:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteRule (some_folder/.*) $1 [L] # adjust the regex to what you want.

    # normal cake rules
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
 </IfModule>

You can do this for as many sub folders as you wish, by changing the regex accordingly. Its pretty simple to do and a much cleaner way than having all your stuff inside the webroot/ folder of your APP.