CakePHP: Shared Hosting Dilemma

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I'm having trouble with uploading my cakePHP project on a shared hosting ( from hostgator ). Here is what I have done: I've organized my cake distribution like this:

  • home/user/app
  • home/user/cake/cake
  • home/user/cake/vendors
  • home/user/cake/.htaccess

  • home/user/cake/index.php

    I have taken the content of webroot directory from app and put it in

    • home/user/public_html

    I've modified this file home/user/public_html/index.php ( the one that was in app/webroot ) changing these lines like this:

    • define('ROOT', DS.'home'.DS.'user');
    • define('APP_DIR', 'app');
    • define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'home'.DS.'user'.DS.'cake');

    And that's about it.

    MY PROBLEM IS THE FOLLOWING:

    I have managed to deal with all the problems involved in the default index.php cakePHP page and I have a green and fully functional so to say, project. So when I access my "/", I get:

    "Your tmp directory is writable.

    The FileEngine is being used for caching. To change the config edit APP/config/core.php

    Your database configuration file is present.

    Cake is able to connect to the database."

    Now, I've created a model-view-controller with a mysql database background (like in the 15 min Blog Tutorial ), but when I'm trying to access some views ( e.g. /posts )...it gives me a blank page ( this worked perfect on my local machine virtual server apache ).

    What configuration am I missing ?

    Thank you.

EDIT: Apparently I had problems with the hosting. My URL was something like:

http://gator111.hostgator.com/~username/

and all I had to do was add an extra line in the webroot .htaccess:

RewriteBase /~username/

Thanks for the support.

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cakephphostingshared
setting your debug level to 2 in config/core.php might give you an error message – brettkelly
It is set to 2. I've even tried with 3, but no errors, just the blank page. – Progenitura
Check apache logs, that can give you a clue. – RaYell
Try dumping out your cache folder, also. – hollsk

1 Answers

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This tutorial is a life saver, I had the same problem that my host name comes with ~username. Now after adding the 'rewriteBase /~username/', works like a charm.

However, before all these, I followed a youtube tutorial by jason talking about how to configure cakephp on shared hosting. Just paste it here in case it helps anybody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GobWo1rIkE&tracker=False