Installation

Copy orig file directories into subdir on web site, subdir name reflects how app is called.  ie xxx.com\myapp where myapp is the subdir.

Go to xxx.com\myapp and see if welcome page displays, if not check this dirs permission (Set to 755 in linux if necessary).  The welcome page also displays the status of rewrite to tmp dir, database defined or not

Godaddy specific: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/mod-rewrite-on-godaddy-shared-hosting

Running the Setup Routines
Every time you install a Cake application on your localhost, you’ll follow these routine
procedures:
1. Prepare the tmp folder.

chmod -R 0777 tmp

2. Change the Security.salt value in app/config/core.php.

Edit app/config/core.php and put in your own alphanumeric string, about 40 characters in length

3. Enter MySQL database connection settings.

Rename app/config/database.php.default to database.php and edit it.  Has entries for default & test databases. Edit to reflect your setup.

var $default = array(
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'persistent' => false,
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'port'=>'',
    'login' => 'root',
    'password' => 'root',
    'database' => 'cake',
    'schema'=>'',
    'prefix' => '',
    'encoding'=>''
);


4. Design your database schema (unless you are using an existing schema).