I’m mostly writing this posting as a way to document a few steps which I always forget to do when I set up a new CakePHP site locally on my Mac. I’m using XAMPP to run my Apache, MySQL, and PHP installation. For the most part the standard CakePHP installation works flawlessly. So if you have a site titled ‘mydomain’ running on localhost in XAMPP, and if XAMPP is running, you will be able to access