Setup CakePHP¶

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

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Table of Contents

Overview
Walk through

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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Available tools

1. Enter the PHP container ¶

host> ./shell.sh

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Work inside the container

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

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 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):

/etc/hosts¶

 127.0.0.1 my-cake.loc

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

8. Open your browser ¶

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