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In case your newly created CakePHP site looks weird without any styling, try enabling the mod_rewrite (see “8.5 A Note on mod_rewrite“).

You might get a 403 Forbidden error when changing the AllowOverride directive to all. If you get one, open the Console and see Apache’s error log. It might be because you haven’t added FollowSymLinks option. Try adding that and the configuration should look something like:

<Directory “/Users/John/Sites/cake”>

    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride All

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>

Now, if everything works fine after that, cool. If you’re getting a 404 Not Found error saying something like:

The requested URL /Users/John/Sites/cake/app/webroot/ was not found on this server.

Chances are because you’re using Web Sharing in Leopard and your site is located in your <home>/Sites directory. If that’s so, try adding the RewriteBase directive to your .htaccess file in Cake’s root directory. The file should now look something like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

   RewriteEngine on

   RewriteBase /~John/cake

   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]

   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

Hopefully that’ll fix the problem.