I am currently learning some of the technologies involved in building web based applications, following ideas from the Software as a Service course.
Currently I'm looking at PHP and the CakePHP frameworks.
Obtain the source
Download and unzip the package from the CakePHP website
Rename to a suitable folder, I have put mine in Sites/ScoutCamp.
Set up Apache
Edit your sites file sudo nano /etc/apache2/users/username.conf
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Lots of errors and messages
First time I fired up the browser I thought “Oh dear me” or at least something along those lines.Unlike my trial of Ruby on Rails, there were loads of errors and configuration changes that were required.
I have solved most of the problems, but still have one left to suss out.
Timezone settings
In app/Config/core.php there is a line (it was 232 on my build)
//date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
Uncomment and set to your timezone - Newcastle is in the same timezone as London.
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
Unable to write 'cake_dev_en-us' to File cache
The app/tmp folder needs to be writable by the web user.To find out who this is, add the following bit of code to app/View/Pages/home.ctp
On my system, the web user is _www, so change the owner:
sudo chown -R _www app/tmp/
This cleared up all the errors above the title.
Please change the value of “Security.salt” and “Security.cipherSeed”
In app/Config/core.php find the lines and change to a more suitable value. I used sha1sum to generate the salt, and pasted for the salt. The Seed I just typed a few numbers at random.df | shasum
Setting the database connection
You need to create your database using mysql (there are other options, but that's the one I went with).Copy database.php.default to database.php and add your user and database details. Note that for some reason, OSX will not work user localhost (and that took a day to track down).
public $default = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => '127.0.0.1', // Note change from localhost
'login' => 'ScoutCamp',
'password' => 'yourPassword',
'database' => 'ScoutCamp',
'prefix' => '',
'encoding' => 'utf8',
);
