Installing CakePHP

First, you’ll need to download and install Composer if you haven’t done so already. If you have cURL installed, it’s as easy as running the following:

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Now that you’ve downloaded and installed Composer, you can get a new CakePHP application by running:

php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app [app_name]

Or if Composer is installed globally:

composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app [app_name]

You can now visit the path to where you installed your CakePHP application and see the setup traffic lights.

Development Server

A development installation is the fastest method to setup CakePHP. In this example, we will be using CakePHP’s console to run PHP’s built-in web server which will make your application available at http://host:port. From the app directory, execute:

bin/cake server -H 192.168.13.37 -p 5673

Create .htaccess file

CakePHP webroot directory (will be copied to your application’s web root by bake):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    app/webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>