cakephp static page

I am learning cakephp and my installation is as follow

localhost/wordpress/cakephpapplication

now I created a basic page and in the elements I created the top navigation links. I wanted to create 开发者_如何转开发an About us page, so under pages folder, where I have my home.ctp page, I created a page called about.ctp. Then in elements top.ctp page I entered the link as

<li><a href="wordpress/pages/about">About Us</a></li>

and when I click it doesnt find the page. Then I tried this

<li><a href="/pages/about">About Us</a></li>

and that didnt work either

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/wordpress/cakephpapplication/pages/about

worked!

I wasn't defining the application in the path.