Setup CakePHP

This example will use composer to install CakePHP from within the PHP container.

Official CakePHP Documentation

Table of Contents

local

Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name	VirtualHost directory	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-cake	/shared/httpd/my-cake	my_cake	loc	http://my-cake.loc

Walk through

It will be ready in eight simple steps:

Enter the PHP container
Create a new VirtualHost directory
Install CakePHP via composer
Symlink webroot directory
Add MySQL database
Configure datbase connection
Setup DNS record
Visit http://my-cake.loc in your browser

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1. Enter the PHP container

host> ./shell.sh

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2. Create new vhost directory

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-cake

3. Install CakePHP

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-cake
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-cake $ composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app cakephp

4. Symlink webroot

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-cake $ ln -s cakephp/webroot/ htdocs

5. Add MySQL Database

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-cake $ mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p -e 'CREATE DATABASE my_cake;'

6. Configure database connection

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-cake $ vi cakephp/config/app.php

<?php
  'Datasources' => [
        'default' => [
            'className' => 'Cake\Database\Connection',
            'driver' => 'Cake\Database\Driver\Mysql',
            'persistent' => false,
            'host' => '127.0.0.1',
            /**
             * CakePHP will use the default DB port based on the driver selected
             * MySQL on MAMP uses port 8889, MAMP users will want to uncomment
             * the following line and set the port accordingly
             */
            //'port' => 'non_standard_port_number',
            'username' => 'root',
            'password' => 'secret',
            'database' => 'my_cake',
            'encoding' => 'utf8',
            'timezone' => 'UTC',
            'flags' => [],
            'cacheMetadata' => true,
?>

7. DNS record

If you do not have global_configuration_auto_dns configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

127.0.0.1 my-cake.loc

For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: project_configuration_dns_records or global_configuration_auto_dns.

8. Open your browser

All set now, you can visit http://my-cake.loc in your browser.

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