HOWTO : CakePHP 1.3.7 and Hiawatha 7.4 on Ubuntu Desktop 10.10

This tutorial shows you how to configure a development environment of CakePHP on Ubuntu Desktop 10.10. It can also be used in production for Ubuntu Server 10.10.

Step 0 :

Follow this link to install Hiawatha 7.4 on Ubuntu Desktop 10.10. The security options can be skipped.

Step 0a :

sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf

Add the following to "hiawatha.conf".
UrlToolkit {
   ToolkitID = cakephp
   Match ^/app/webroot/ Skip 2
   Match ^/app/(.*) Rewrite /$1 Continue
   Match ^/(.*) Rewrite /app/webroot/$1 Continue
   RequestURI exists Return
   Match (.*)\?(.*) Rewrite $1&$2 Continue
   Match ^/app/webroot/(.*) Rewrite /app/webroot/index.php?url=$1
}

UrlToolkit {
   ToolkitID = cakephp_apps
   Match ^/webroot/ Skip 2
   Match ^/(.*) Rewrite /$1 Continue
   Match ^/(.*) Rewrite /webroot/$1 Continue
   RequestURI exists Return
   Match (.*)\?(.*) Rewrite $1&$2 Continue
   Match ^/webroot/(.*) Rewrite /webroot/index.php?url=$1
}

Step 0b :

sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites/mysite

VirtualHost {
   Hostname = localhost, 127.0.0.1
   WebsiteRoot = /var/www/mysite
   StartFile = index.php
   AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
   ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log
   TimeForCGI = 15
   #UseFastCGI = PHP5
   UseToolkit = cakephp_apps
   DenyBody = ^.*%3Cscript.*%3C%2Fscript%3E.*$
   ExecuteCGI = yes
   PreventCSRF = yes
   PreventSQLi = yes
   PreventXSS = yes
}

Step 1 :

Install CakePHP for github.
sudo apt-get install git

cd /var/www

sudo git clone https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp.git

Step 1a :

sudo nano /etc/environment

Add the following to the end of the line, but within in the " ".

:/var/www/cakephp/cake/console

Step 1b :

. /etc/environment

To see if the captioned path is included or not :

echo $PATH

Step 2 :

Create databases and tables according to your project requirement.

mysql -u root -p

When done, type the following :

quit

Step 3 :

cd /var/www

sudo su

cake bake project myproject

Follows the instruction on the screen.

cd /var/www/myproject

cake bake model all
cake bake controller all
cake bake view all

Exit from the root.
exit

Step 4 :

cd /var/www/myproject/config

sudo cp database.php.default database.php

Change the "login", "password" and "database" accordingly to the MySQL root and password as well as database that you just created.

Step 5 :

Now you can open Firefox to browse your application by typing "localhost" at the address field.

Step 6 :

To configure localization for the application.

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-0 wx-common wx2.8-headers libwxgtk2.8-0

Go to http://www.poedit.net to download the current version 1.4.6.1.

tar -xvzf poedit-1.4.6.1.tar.gz
cd poedit-1.4.6.1

./configure
make
sudo make install

Reboot your computer when necessary.

Step 6a :

cd /var/www/myproject

sudo su

cake i18n

Select "E" and follows the instruction on screen. Then, select "I".

Now, a "default.pot" file is created at the /var/www/myproject/locale.

Exit from the root.
exit

Execute "poedit" and open the file "default.pot". Translate the content to Traditional Chinese and then save to "default.po". A "default.mo" will also be created.

Step 6b :

sudo mkdir /var/www/myproject/locale/zh_TW
sudo mkdir /var/www/myproject/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES

sudo cp /var/www/myproject/locale/default.* /var/www/myproject/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/

Step 6c :

cd /var/www/myproject/config
sudo nano core.php

Append the following line to the core.php :

Configure::write('Config.language', 'zh_TW');

Restart Hiawatha :
sudo /etc/init.d/hiawatha restart

For example :
Open the browser and type "localhost/users", the content will be changed to Traditional Chinese.

*Where "users" is a Controller and table of a database that you just create. "users" is just an example.

That's all! See you.