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I just buy new shared hosting account for my new domain on hostgator. I want to install cakephp web application into this hosting. However the local setting or common setting that i used on other hosting is not work on hostgator. After figure out the problem, i found that the hostgator hosting does not allow for changing DOCUMENT ROOT setting.

So after research on cakephp tutorial, which come to setting cakephp on shared hosting and i think this solution also good for production phase. I will mention how i set my cakephp on hostgator

1. move app, cake, plugins, vendors folder into your hosting root folder. It is user root folder on your hosting
2. delete .htaccess and index.php on cakephp root folder
3. move /app/webroot/*.* to /public_html folder
4. delete empty /app/webroot folder
5. edit /public_html/index.php to point to the ‘cake’ and ‘app’ directories. For example my public_html path for my domain is /home/myhost/public_html, so i point
   – ROOT to look at /home/myhost
   – APP_DIR to look at /home/myhost/app
   – CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH to look at /home/myhost/cake
6. edit this line on /public_html/index.php with your appropriate path
   if (!defined('ROOT')) {
define('ROOT', DS.'home'.DS.'myhost');
}

   if (!defined('APP_DIR')) {
define('APP_DIR', 'app');
}

   if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH')) {
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS.'home'.DS.'myhost');
}

7. The only .htaccess i have on /home/myhost/public_html, the setting for .htaccess look like this
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>