cakephp Getting started with cakephp Requirements

Example

1-HTTP Server. For example: Apache. Having mod_rewrite is preferred, but by no means required.
2-PHP 5.5.9 or greater (including PHP 7)
3-mbstring PHP extens ion
4-intl PHP extension

I usually make an apache and mysql installation on a linuxbox. I can use windows too, however I do not recommend it ;) So, I usually make a new entry into the /etc/hosts file to make a sitename available to cakephp.

127.0.0.1   localhost caketest.local

next step to copy all cakephp files into a subdirectory inside /home/myusername/public_html/caketest

app
cake
index.php
plugins
README
vendors
.htaccess

then I set up the site to apache (not neccessary),

<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "/home/myusername/public_html/caketest" ServerName caketest.local
# This should be omitted in the production environment SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

<Directory "/home/myusername/public_html/caketest">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

restart apache. you also need to edit the .htaccess files and place a RewriteBase directive with hte path to the actual directory, e.g.

 RewriteBase /~myusername/caketest

create a database, set the db connection in cake config files and that's all. you can point your browser to http://caketest.local if you do not want a test site url you can skip hosts, and apache vhost creation, but the url to use should be http:/localhost/~myusername/caketest

another important thing is to enable userdir modul in apache, and also check if using php is enabled in userdirs too.