http://book.cakephp.org/view/912/Installation
--- to resolve the database connection and .salt and .cipher whatever issue
need to change
app/config/database.php to build the db connection
and core.php
Security.salt to a value that can be found by searching random strings in google, www.grc.com
Security.cipherSeed, whatever numbers that can do the encryption
---- to resolve the url rewrite-------
conf / httpd.conf
comment out the following line
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
for a specific directory
change
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All
so that .htaccess is could be replicated
------ to get rid of the warning--------
set php.ini
date.timezone = 'America/New_York'