Re: Noob having problems getting started.

2009-12-07 Thread gdburton
Hi there BearState, Any chance you could expand on what you discovered about httpd.conf and mod_rewrite.so. I am another NOOB working through the same book and am seeing similar problems. I had similar experiance with both the 1.2 Blog Tutorial and the initial exercise in another book "CakePHP Ap

Re: Noob having problems getting started.

2009-12-05 Thread BearState
Thanks Jeremy, Having done further digging since I posted, I have found that the problem regarding my httpd.conf setup which was NOT properly loading mod_rewrite.so. The book didn't mention this requisite. :( The file configuration I had setup works fine as well as does the one you sugges

Re: Noob having problems getting started.

2009-12-05 Thread Jeremy Burns
Your directory structure doesn't look right. The directory 'cakephp' is effectively the root of your site. The files/folders within it should be: .htaccess /app /cake /docs (optional, but useful) index.php /vendors All of the files and folders that you create go in the /app folder. If you follow

Noob having problems getting started.

2009-12-05 Thread BearState
Hello, I have downloaded CakePHP, Windows XP. I am referencing the book "Beginning CakePHP" by David Golding. I have Apache on my staging server, but it has many things there, so I set up a cakephp package as follows: /cakephp cake apps todo modules/item.php con