Comments on: CakePHP: One core, many apps

By: ricog

ricog — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:06:59 +0000

I believe the conditions should only need to exist in the .htaccess at the base web folder level. I would need to test to verify though.

By: mimiCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

mimiCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:37:20 +0000

One question though… in installations where cake and app reside together, the way to make cake ignore real folders (subdomain folders) is to include the following in your .htaccess that existing above the cake and app folders.


    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/shop/(.*)$

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/(.*)$

    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]

Now that the contents of the app folder are out on webroot, does this code go into the .htaccess that’s present there?

By: mimiCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

mimiCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:30:41 +0000

Very good tutorial. Helped me setup a common core in one shot. I converted multiple existing apps to this format and all of them worked at the first go – no hiccups Thanks dude!

By: kaklon

kaklon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:30:33 +0000

Under unix, a symbolic link is enough, and it saves you the hassle of modifying index.php

By: nphp101

nphp101 — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:41:37 +0000

Two thumbs up! GREAT TUTORIAL!
I will link this tutorial to my blog. :d

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:16:29 +0000

If you are using a later version of PHP > 5.3 you can use symlink now on Windows platforms as well. This may be the beginning of helper app to quickly roll out sites.

By: ricog

ricog — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:46:49 +0000

@Subhas Thank you for pointing that out. If the code only runs on Linux servers, symbolic links may be a better option. I haven’t tried it myself, but it may save a few steps.

By: Subhas

Subhas — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:42:12 +0000

Wouldn’t it be easier to just create a symbolic link to /usr/lib/cakephp? If your on linux that is.