Running a CakePHP project on Localhost

Question

I have downloaded a CakePHP project from an online server and need to make it work locally, to do some changes. I'm facing a problem similar to this one and have tried all possible solutions, with no luck.

Here's the situations:

• Site home is in localhost/xpto (c:\xampp\htdocs\xpto) -> here, the site appears unformatted (no CSS) and too slow.
• If I access localhost/xpto/something, I get the site with the CSS, but some links wont work.

I have mod_rewrite loaded (phpinfo()) together with the 3 .htaccess files, but still experience this problem.

Is there any known issue that I can explore to fix my site? Please redirect me to any guides or tutorials that you may feel relevant to my issue

Answer 1

Use RewriteBase directive in .htaccess.

e.g my dev space is on my localhost, is located in /home/ati/public_html/cakerbs, under a subdir in my userdir. The rewriteBase looks like as follows in the root of the cake:

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

in the app directory .htacces:

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

in the webroot directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /~ati/cakerbs
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>