Allow from all
</Directory>
If on Mac OSX, another solution is to use the tool virtualhostx to make a virtual host to point to your
folder.
For many hosting services (GoDaddy, 1and1), your web server is actually being served from a
user directory that already uses mod_rewrite. If you are installing CakePHP into a user directory
(http://example.com/~username/cakephp/), or any other URL structure that already utilizes
mod_rewrite, you’ll need to add RewriteBase statements to the .htaccess files CakePHP uses (/.htaccess,
/app/.htaccess, /app/webroot/.htaccess).
This can be added to the same section with the RewriteEngine directive, so for example your webroot
.htaccess file would look like:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /path/to/cake/app
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*) $ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
The details of those changes will depend on your setup, and can include additional things that are not
Cake related. Please refer to Apache’s online documentation for more information.
Pretty URLs on nginx
nginx is a popular server that uses less system resources than Apache. Its drawback is that it does not make
use of .htaccess files like Apache, so it is necessary to create those rewritten URLs in the site-available
configuration. Depending upon your setup, you will have to modify this, but at the very least, you will need
PHP running as a FastCGI instance.
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
rewrite ^(.*) http://example.com $ 1 permanent;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
# root directive should be global
root /var/www/example.com/public/app/webroot/;
index index.php;
access_log /var/www/example.com/log/access.log;
error_log /var/www/example.com/log/error.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;

}
location ~ \.php $ {
try_files $uri =404;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
URL Rewrites on IIS7 (Windows hosts)
IIS7 does not natively support .htaccess files. While there are add-ons that can add this support, you can
also import htaccess rules into IIS to use CakePHP’s native rewrites. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Use Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer to install the URL Rewrite Module 2.0.
2. Create a new file in your CakePHP folder, called web.config.
3. Using Notepad or another XML-safe editor, copy the following code into your new web.config file...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?url={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
</rule>
<rule name="Imported Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
</rule>
<rule name="Imported Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="Imported Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />