thefinalsayontech.blogspot.com/2009/02/cakephp-on-iis-isapi-with-modrewrite.html

Thanks for this guide ryan. It’s great.

Tank you

Sorry for my english, i’m french

Overwrite any existing cake rules in {ISAPI_Rewrite Dir}\httpd.conf with:

# oh yeah, we want it
RewriteEngine On

# catch controller/action urls
RewriteRule ^/cake/([^/]*)/(.*)$ /cake/$1/webroot/index.php?url=/$2 [L]


I’ve heard that the %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} variable may not be populated on certain setups. In that case, you’d want to hardcode the path to the cake root directory there.

I haven’t looked at Cake in a few months as I’ve been preoccupied with writing for the Django community and investigating Rails. I have a full blown recipe application written in Cake which I’ll have to upgrade soon – so I’ll get back into it once I go through the upgrade process.

OK, so you have your regular website root directory set up in IIS. Off of the main website, set up a virtual directory called ‘cake’ which points to your main cake directory (e.g. c:\cake). Add the following to {ISAPI_Rewrite Dir}\httpd.conf:

#This rule performs the ISAPI Rewrite rules
# catch controller/action urls
RewriteRule ^/cake/([^/]*)/(.*)/$ /cake/$1/webroot/index.php?url=/$2 [L]

# catch webroot physical file urls
RewriteRule ^/cake/([^/]*)/(.*)$ /cake/$1/webroot/$2 [L]

Now hack your C:\cake\appname\webroot\index.php file and define the WEBROOT as ‘/cake/appname’. For me, it was around line 62:

if (!defined('WEBROOT_DIR')) {
define('WEBROOT_DIR', 'cake/appname'); //used to be define('WEBROOT_DIR', basename(dirname(__FILE__)));
}


The benefit here is that this enables you to quickly develop in multiple apps off of the cake directory which all use the same cake library without having to recode the httpd.conf file.