Salt and Passwords

To find out what a generated hashed password would look like, do this...

$this->Auth->password('password');

The salt Security.salt found in app\config\core.php affects the generated hashed password.

One core, many apps

Edit this ~/www/ampcake/app/webroot/index.php

CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH can either be relative (../../core) or absolute (/path/to/core)

For our case, 'cakephp' stores the 'cake' library. This works for both dev and live environment.

if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH')) {
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'localhost') {
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', '..' . DS . '..' . DS . 'cakephp');
} else {
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT);
}
}

Bake Cake on Windows

Assuming that the required tables that conforms to cakephp standard is already in the database.

On a Windows machine, setup environment variable pointing to both "php.exe" and "cake.exe"

Change directory into "C:\www\ampcake\app", paying extra attention that you are really in the "app" directory.

Run "cake bake all" and follow the instructions on screen.

Enable and disable site in Apache2

To enable a site.

a2ensite

And to disable a site.

a2dissite

Update apache2 configuration and reload, run this command:

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Apache and PHP5

On a Linux box, in order for PHP5 to work with Apache2, you need these installed:

php5
php5-common
libapache2-mod-php5

Additionally, if you would like to have PostgeSQL support, you will need this as well:

php5-pgsql