CakePHP Installation Broke (Probably Apache2 Problem)

Question

I tried to install CakePHP on my home Ubuntu 10.04 desktop for development/testing purposes, and I believe I have gone through all the appropriate steps. However, I am still running into the problem that my layout is broken. I believe this is a DocumentRoot or mod_rewrite problem, but I don't have enough experience in Apache to diagnose and fix it.

  /var/www/cakephp/.htaccess
  1 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  2    RewriteEngine on
  3    RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
  4    RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
  5 </IfModule>

  /var/www/cakephp/app/webroot/.htaccess
  1 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  2     RewriteEngine On
  3     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  4     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  5     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
  6 </IfModule>

Firebug gives this: 404 Not Found

Not Found

The requested URL /cakephp/css/cake.generic.css was not found on this server.

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Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

I tried setting the permissions of css/ and cake.generic.css to 775. owner is www-data, which is right. tmp is writable too

I also can't access the directory from my browser, 404.

Answer 1

I found the solution. I had to go under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and change DocumentRoot to /var/www/cakephp/app/webroot

Now everything loads fine. Thanks!

Sorry,
Signed,
The Apache2 Noob :)