cakephp inside a subdirectory

Question

I have a problem with cakephp, I can\'t find a way to get cakephp working in a subdirectory. I have a webpage that resides at www.example.com and I want to have cak

Answer 1

Did you read this page in the book and make the appropriate changes in /app/webroot/index.php?

Edit:

The problem is that when I go to www.example.com/cake it requests a CakeController and has no stylesheets loaded.

This seems to indicate that you have the wrong .htaccess in your site's root (www, htdocs ,public_html or whatever) as it's trying to process the request into the CakePHP structure.

It should not look like this

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

Why don't you make life easy for yourself and put CakePHP in the root and move the page(s) that reside at www.example.com into app/webroot. That way it'll behave exactly as you want, i.e:

www.example.com/staticPage.html - displays the static page.

www.example.com/users - displays the users index

Files in webroot are served exactly as if they were in the site's root. Think of the css and javascript files.