Installing CakePHP on Ubuntu 20.04

CakePHP is a popular open-source web framework written in PHP, which follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software architectural pattern. It provides an elegant and structured way of developing web applications, making it easier to build and maintain complex web projects.

Installation Steps:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install apache2

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-mbstring

sudo apt install composer

composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app project-name

Replace "project-name" with the desired name for your project.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data project-name

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/project-name.conf

Replace "project-name" with the actual name of your project.

Add the following configuration to the file:

    ServerName your-domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/project-name/webroot

    
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

sudo a2ensite project-name.conf

sudo systemctl restart apache2

1. Update the system packages:
2. Install Apache and enable mod_rewrite:
3. Install PHP and necessary extensions:
4. Install Composer (dependency management tool for PHP):
5. Create a new CakePHP project:
6. Change ownership of the project directory to the Apache user:
7. Create a new Apache configuration file:
8. Enable the new Apache configuration:
9. Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:

Your CakePHP application should now be up and running. You can access it by navigating to your domain in a web browser.

For more details and advanced configurations, you can refer to the official CakePHP documentation: https://book.cakephp.org/