How to Install CakePHP in Ubuntu

How to Install CakePHP on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

CakePHP is a PHP based open-source web framework. It is used to create dynamic, high-peformance web applications.

It is cross-platform and first released on 2005.

In this tutorial, we will install CakePHP on Ubuntu operating system. It requires following prerequisite.

1) Use the following command to install CakePhp using composer.

  $ composer self-update && composer create-project –prefer-dist cakephp/app tutoraspire  

Software CakePHP 1

It will create an application tutoraspire inside /var/www/html/ directory, because this is our current directory location.

2) Configure Apache Server

Open server config file using this command.

locate to this code inside the config file.

  <Directory /var/www/>          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks          AllowOverride None          Require all granted  </Directory>  

Replace it with the following.

  <Directory /var/www/>          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks          AllowOverride All          Require all granted  </Directory>  

3) Enable rewrite mode.

Enter this command to the terminal, it will enable rewrite mode for apache server.

4) Restart server

5) Run Application

Open browser and type localhost/tutoraspire, and it will show the following output to the browser.

Software CakePHP 2

Well, we have installed and setup CakePHP successfully. Now, build application according to the requirement.