CAKEPHP - Change default path to webroot

Question

I\'m new to cakephp and I\'m having some problems with setting up a local development server. I have my cake install located at http://localhost/dropbox/my_site/. However,

Answer 1

CakePHP will work happily in a subdirectory - I have several Cake sites running at http://localhost/{appname} on my dev machine.

Cake defines its ROOT directory in the root index.php file. If you look inside you'll see the following lines:

define('ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));
define('WEBROOT_DIR', 'webroot');
define('WWW_ROOT', ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . WEBROOT_DIR . DS);

Since it's taking ROOT from dirname(__FILE__), it will always point to that file's location.

I suspect you have problems in your routing file. Did you create any custom routing rules to account for being located in a subdirectory? If you did, your cake install may be trying to access http://localhost/dropbox/my_site/dropbox/... and that's why you're getting that error.