cakephp doesn't work url-rewriting on Ubuntu

Question

all. This time I try cakephp, but I have got \"URL rewriting is not properly configured on your server. 1) Help me configure it 2) I don\'t / can\'t use URL rewriting\". I could

Answer 1

I had this problem as well. Turns out the .htaccess file was not getting copied alongside the cakePHP source. This is a common issue when using the cp command or not having hidden files visible in a file browser, unless you copy the top-level directory.

Doing a direct copy of the file to my project folder fixed it for me without having to mess with my apache settings.

cp ~/git/cakePHP/.htaccess ~/project/folder/