子url中的CakePHP（不是子目录）

Question

I can find dozens of articles on installing CakePHP in a sub-directory and getting it to appear in the root url. That is NOT what I am asking for. I rarely down-vote, but if you give that answer, I will down vote you.

I have CakePHP in my root directory on my hosting server. It's a clean Apache server instance... I think. I'm really not a server guy. I created a new account through WHM on Hostgator and have CakePHP sitting in the public_html.

However, there is no domain name associated with this server yet. The URL is like this:

http://123.456.0.0/~example/

And CakePHP gives me the following errors:

Error: ~exampleController could not be found.

Error: Create the class ~exampleController below in file:
app/Controller/~exampleController.php 

I imagine there's some .htaccess configuration that makes it ignore that /~example in the URL. Can someone point me in the right direction, even if it's just the right page in the CakePHP docs?

Answer 1

By partially following the advice at http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/syl-via/2011/09/19/rewritebase_config_for_cake_installation_with_userdir_and_mod_rewrite I was able to make this work by adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root of the Cake install:

RewriteBase /~example

I put this after RewriteEngine on for it to work.

In other words, if your Cake install is at /home/example/ then it's the /home/example/.htaccess file that you'd change.

I didn't edit app/.htaccess or app/webroot/.htaccess because it seems to work without these files needing to be edited.

Please note that I tested this with the latest version of Cake (2.3.5) -- I don't know if it will work the same way in older versions.