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Asked: 2026-05-16T12:32:26+00:00

I’ve got two legacy codebases that I would like to have living side by

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I’ve got two legacy codebases that I would like to have living side by side. One is Cake, one is handwritten PHP.

I would like both to be located at http://www.example.com. I’d like the handwritten PHP to serve any requests in the root directory, but anything else I’d like to go to the cake codebase. I cannot simply put cake in a subdir, because all of the links generated by the cake app are hardcoded to be from the root of the site. So Cake won’t work in a separate subdomain.

I’d like to do this because I want to share an SSL cert between the two codebases, so I can’t put it on a subdomain (wildcard certs are too pricey).

Any advice?

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  1. Editorial Team

    CakePHP boot (index.php) is only invoked when Apache can’t find a specific file/directory. Because of this, you can install a your non-cake php files in the document root as normal and they will be ignored by cake.

    One modification to be made is renaming cake’s index.php to something like, cake-index.php. Then in the .htaccess change rewrite rule to match:

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cake-index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
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