Installing Wordpress along side Cakephp

From: http://dogmatic69.com/blog/development/7-using-other-apps-with-cakephp-htaccess-config

One thing that is asked quite a lot on #cakephp is how to use other apps alongside CakePHP, and the answer giving is normally pretty ugly. Stick the files/folders in side webroot/. Although that does work, its not very nice. So ill show you a little trick with .htaccess files.

The first (really simple way) is to use a .htaccess inside the sub folder. For example you can have a copy of Joomla! running alongside cake with no issues when you have the .htaccess for Joomla! enabled. If the app does not have one and/or you would not know what to put in the .htaccess file you have another option

Make Apache stop processing rewrites if it finds a request for your sub directory. This is done by adding a rule for the sub directory and then telling Apache it is the last rule to process. The .htaccess file you want to edit is the one found inside your APP directory. All you want to add is the following line:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>    RewriteEngine on    RewriteRule (some_folder/.*) $1 [L] # adjust the regex to what you want.    # normal cake rules    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L] </IfModule>

You can do this for as many sub folders as you wish, by changing the regex accordingly. Its pretty simple to do and a much cleaner way than having all your stuff inside the webroot/ folder of your APP.

Simply put the wordpress install into a "blog" folder in your /app/webroot folder.

Cake will load from the webroot as if the files were in a normal subfolder under a non-cake appliation. You may need to edit / adjust paths in the wp configs or .htaccess files throughout to get everything perfect but it isn't that difficult.

One way to do this is to have your domain pointing to site.com/cakefolder and then have another subdomain blog.site.com pointing to site.com/blog folder

This way to your user, it would always be site.com and blog.site.com