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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:25:53+00:00

I’m fairly new to CakePHP and am trying to setup a custom admin area

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I’m fairly new to CakePHP and am trying to setup a custom admin area for my app. I realize Cake can create an admin area with scaffolding but I’d like to build something much more customized, and have it accessible from via /admin/, with one app for the public side and another for the admin.

Ideally, the structure would be:

www
^- apples (public application here)
   ^- apples-admin (password-protected control panel)

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to set this up using a single Cake core and two apps – one for “apples” and one for “apples-admin”. I’ve read some notes about modding PHP’s include path, but that won’t be possible in the production environment. The other notes I see about changing CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH aren’t very clear on where I would make that change, and it doesn’t appear as though that would get me the app-inside-app structure I’m after.

Is what I’m trying to do possible? Am I better off using just a single app for both the public side and admin area?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can achieve what you want using a single application.

    To get up and running:

    Use Prefix Routing to map your admin actions.

    Then use the Auth component to restrict access to your ‘admin‘ actions. I recommend setting up a User model to manage your users and using the FormAuthentication handler for logging in.

    If you haven’t used Bake for code generation before, then that’s also worth looking into. It’ll help create a base starting point for a lot of your admin functions.

    Good luck.

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