Kohana_Exception [ 0 ]: A valid cookie salt is required. Please set Cookie::$salt
I'm working through this tutorial ( http://kowsercse.com/2011/09/04/kohana-tutorial-beginners/ ) and have run into this error message: Kohana_Exception [ 0 ]: A valid cookie salt is required. Please set Cookie::$salt. I'm a n00b and don't even know where to look for Cookie::$salt in the app. You have to provide a salt as you can read in the official documentation //bootstrap.php Cookie::$salt = 'foobar'; I can highly recommend the official doc as well as the API browser . When you learn how Kohana works, you will learn first of all the meaning of the error messages and how you can handle them