Getting Cake

First, let's get a copy of fresh Cake code.

To get a fresh download, visit the CakePHP project at Cakeforge: http://cakeforge.org/projects/cakephp/ and download the stable release. For this tutorial you need 1.2.x.x

You can also checkout/export a fresh copy of our trunk code at: https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/trunk/cake/1.2.x.x/

Regardless of how you downloaded it, place the code inside of your DocumentRoot. Once finished, your directory setup should look something like the following:

/path_to_document_root
   /app
   /cake
   /docs
   /vendors
   .htaccess

Now might be a good time to learn a bit about how Cake's directory
structure works: check out Chapter "Basic Principles of CakePHP",
Section : CakePHP File Structure.
   index.php