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At this time, a company website normally should have blog to post some business activity or related activity with website themes. WordPress is the best blog framework (CMS) that i ever used. When i was build web application under my own php framework, i wasn’t worried about integrating wordpress into my website. It would has separated setting with main application.

However, now i am using cakephp framework. And if we need to put file or folder, it need to be put inside app/webroot folder. So if i need to install wordpress blog in http://www.balistupa.com/blog, i need to put the blog folder inside /app/webroot/.

The problem is about the url, with standard setting the blog would be redirected to http://www.balistupa.com/app/webroot/blog/ not to http://www.balistupa.com/blog/. This is not look good for visitor and also for seo. Because the folder structure is to deep.

After researching, i play with .htaccess setting to redirect /app/webroot/blog/ into /blog/ url. And the solution is very simple. So this is the step how i install wordpress blog inside cakephp framework.

1. upload wordpress files into /app/webroot/blog/ folder on server
2. setting /app/webroot/blog/wp-config.php with appropriate setting for database
3. and then install wordpress. On this step you will get directed to http://www.yourdomain.com/app/webroot/blog/wp-admin/install.php. Dont worried about the path, we can fix it easily
4. After installation finished, go to wordpress admin area at http://www.yourdomain.com/app/webroot/blog/wp-admin and then log in
5. Go to Settings > General. Change WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) into http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/ and then Save.
6. If using mod_rewrite for wordpress, Open /app/webroot/blog/.htaccess. Change into
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /app/webroot/blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /app/webroot/blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
7. Open /.htaccess, Change its setting into
   RedirectMatch temp ^/blog/wp-admin$ http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/
RewriteRule blog$ /blog/ [L]
RewriteRule blog/wp-admin$ /blog/wp-admin/ [L]
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
8. Finished. Now you will have wordpress blog url at http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/

I notice that this setting also fix the problem user access http://www.yourdomain.com/blog without end /, and redirected into http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/.

So that is how we can redirecting http://www.yourdomain.com/app/webroot/blog/ into http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/ for installing WordPress blog inside Cakephp Framework