Welcome to the Cookbook

Installing CakePHP can be as simple as slapping it in your web server’s document root, or as complex and flexible as you wish. This section will cover the three main installation types for CakePHP: development, production, and advanced.

• Development: easy to get going, URLs for the application include the CakePHP installation directory name, and less secure.
• Production: Requires the ability to configure the web server’s document root, clean URLs, very secure.
• Advanced: With some configuration, allows you to place key CakePHP directories in different parts of the filesystem, possibly sharing a single CakePHP core library folder amongst many CakePHP applications.