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A production installation is a more flexible way to setup Cake. Using this method allows an entire domain to act as a single CakePHP application. This example will help you install Cake anywhere on your filesystem and make it available at http://www.example.com. Note that this installation may require the rights to change the DocumentRoot on an Apache webservers.

Unpack the contents of the Cake archive into a directory of your choosing. For the purposes of this example, we assume you choose to install Cake into /cake_install. Your production setup will look like this on the filesystem:

• /cake_install/
  • /app
    • /webroot (this directory is set as the DocumentRoot directive)
  • /cake
  • /docs
  • /vendors
  • /index.php

Developers using Apache should set the DocumentRoot directive for the domain to:

DocumentRoot /cake_install/app/webroot

If your web server is configured correctly, you should now find your Cake application accessible at http://www.example.com.