Getting CakePHP up and running on Ubuntu

To enable mod rewrite, you need to add a symbolic link to the module definition file, which lives in /etc/apache2/mods-available, to the folder: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. Do this by first changing to the mods-enabled folder then adding the symlink.

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled 

ln -s ../mods-available/rewrite.load

In the sites-enabled folder /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, edit 000-default (this is actually a symbolic link to etc/apache2/sites-available/default, which will need to be made editable before making changes). You will need to add the statement:

AllowOverride All

to the directory blocks for '/' and '/var/www'. If these blocks do not contain the statement:

Allow from all

then add it at the end. Make sure that any occurrence of AllowOverride None within these blocks is changed, commented or deleted.