I\'m new to cakephp and I\'m having some problems with setting up a local development server. I have my cake install located at http://localhost/dropbox/my_site/. However,
This likely doesn't have so much to do with CakePHP as it does with your web server.
If dropbox is your document root, it should be mapped accordingly in your web server configuration. For example using DocumentRoot in Apache.
DocumentRoot