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A development installation is the fastest method to setup Cake. This example will help you install a CakePHP application and make it available at http://www.example.com/cake_1_3/. We assume for the purposes of this example that your document root is set to /var/www/html.

Unpack the contents of the Cake archive into /var/www/html. You now have a folder in your document root named after the release you've downloaded (e.g. cake_1.3.0). Rename this folder to cake_1_3. Your development setup will look like this on the file system:

• /var/www/html
  • /cake_1_3
    • /app
    • /cake
    • /vendors
    • /.htaccess
    • /index.php
    • /README

If your web server is configured correctly, you should now find your Cake application accessible at http://www.example.com/cake_1_3/.