Installing CakePHP 2.4.7 on Windows - cakephp

Question

I am facing issue in my first intallation of CakePHP.
I am working on Windows OS and using WAMP. I am able to point my browser to localhost -> phpcake to open my installation of CakePHP.
However I get an error as below:
Missing Controller
Error: PhpcakeController could not be found.
Following are the steps which I followed for installing CakePHP:
Unzipped CakePHP, version 2.4.7 and loaded that in my WAMP
Created database using phpMyAdmin
Updated the app\Config\database.php file with login, password and databasename
The contents of the .htaccess files of cake is as below:
phpcake/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
phpcake/app/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
phpcake/app/webroot/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase D:/Vivek/phpcake/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(app/webroot/)?(img|css|js)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
The mod_rewrite is disabled on my Apache. If I enable it, then I get 404 error on launching CakePHP install.
Could you guide me as to which step am I missing?

Answer 1

Finally i got it working. This is what i was doing (wrong).
In my WAMP i created an alias directory. Apache -> Alias -> Add an Alias Directory. In this alias i pointed to the location of my CakePHP unzipped folder. I updated the App/Config/Database.php to point to created MySQL database. However on selecting mod_rewrite module in Apache i was getting 404/403 errors. And without mod_rewrite i was getting missing controller error.
Missing Controller
Error: PhpcakeController could not be found.
I tried fresh installations 3 times with same results.
My understanding is that the mod_rewrite, the instructions in Alias file and .htaccess files were creating this trouble.
So this is what i did (Worked):
I copied my CakePHP into WAMP's www directory. That's it, it did the trick. I went through various articles about .htaccess, and mod_rewrite. Frankly speaking it is complex for me.