Performance tuning CakePHP application

Question

I just got this quite large CakePHP app (about 20k lines of code), which isn\'t very clean and there is no documentation at all. The app is running in production, but it has rea

Answer 1

The problem is, that I haven't been yet able to create working development instance

This is the issue you need to solve. Get that app running agnostically to its environment (e.g., ensure that all environment configuration lies in one file, and that that file contains only environment configuration). Once you solve this, you can hack away at everything you like in development.