Installation

Requirements

The minimum requirement by this project template is that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

Installing using Vagrant

This way is the easiest but long (~20 min).

This installation way doesn't require pre-installed software (such as web-server, PHP, MySQL etc.) - just do next steps!

Manual for Linux/Unix users

  1. Install VirtualBox
  2. Install Vagrant
  3. Create GitHub personal API token

  4. Prepare project:

    git clone https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced.git
cd yii2-app-advanced/vagrant/config
cp vagrant-local.example.yml vagrant-local.yml
  5. Place your GitHub personal API token to vagrant-local.yml

  6. Change directory to project root:

    cd yii2-app-advanced

  7. Run commands:

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
vagrant up

That's all. You just need to wait for completion! After that you can access project locally by URLs:

Manual for Windows users

  1. Install VirtualBox
  2. Install Vagrant
  3. Reboot
  4. Create GitHub personal API token

  5. Prepare project:

    • download repo yii2-app-advanced
    • unzip it
    • go into directory yii2-app-advanced-master/vagrant/config
    • copy vagrant-local.example.yml to vagrant-local.yml
  6. Place your GitHub personal API token to vagrant-local.yml

  7. Add the following lines to hosts file:

    192.168.83.137 y2aa-frontend.dev
192.168.83.137 y2aa-backend.dev

  8. Open terminal (cmd.exe), change directory to project root and run commands:

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
vagrant up

    (You can read here how to change directories in command prompt)

That's all. You just need to wait for completion! After that you can access project locally by URLs:

Installing using Composer

If you do not have Composer, follow the instructions in the Installing Yii section of the definitive guide to install it.

With Composer installed, you can then install the application using the following commands:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced yii-application

The first command installs the composer asset plugin which allows managing bower and npm package dependencies through Composer. You only need to run this command once for all. The second command installs the advanced application in a directory named yii-application. You can choose a different directory name if you want.

Install from an Archive File

Extract the archive file downloaded from yiiframework.com to a directory named advanced that is directly under the Web root.

Then follow the instructions given in the next subsection.

Preparing application

After you install the application, you have to conduct the following steps to initialize the installed application. You only need to do these once for all.

  1. Open a console terminal, execute the init command and select dev as environment.

    /path/to/php-bin/php /path/to/yii-application/init

    If you automate it with a script you can execute init in non-interactive mode.

    /path/to/php-bin/php /path/to/yii-application/init --env=Production --overwrite=All

  2. Create a new database and adjust the components['db'] configuration in common/config/main-local.php accordingly.

  3. Open a console terminal, apply migrations with command /path/to/php-bin/php /path/to/yii-application/yii migrate.

  4. Set document roots of your web server:

    • for frontend /path/to/yii-application/frontend/web/ and using the URL http://frontend.dev/
    • for backend /path/to/yii-application/backend/web/ and using the URL http://backend.dev/

    For Apache it could be the following:

        <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName frontend.dev
        DocumentRoot "/path/to/yii-application/frontend/web/"
           
        <Directory "/path/to/yii-application/frontend/web/">
            # use mod_rewrite for pretty URL support
            RewriteEngine on
            # If a directory or a file exists, use the request directly
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            # Otherwise forward the request to index.php
            RewriteRule . index.php

            # use index.php as index file
            DirectoryIndex index.php

            # ...other settings...
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
       
    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName backend.dev
        DocumentRoot "/path/to/yii-application/backend/web/"
           
        <Directory "/path/to/yii-application/backend/web/">
            # use mod_rewrite for pretty URL support
            RewriteEngine on
            # If a directory or a file exists, use the request directly
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            # Otherwise forward the request to index.php
            RewriteRule . index.php

            # use index.php as index file
            DirectoryIndex index.php

            # ...other settings...
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>

    For nginx:

        server {
        charset utf-8;
        client_max_body_size 128M;

        listen 80; ## listen for ipv4
        #listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

        server_name frontend.dev;
        root        /path/to/yii-application/frontend/web/;
        index       index.php;

        access_log  /path/to/yii-application/log/frontend-access.log;
        error_log   /path/to/yii-application/log/frontend-error.log;

        location / {
            # Redirect everything that isn't a real file to index.php
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
        }

        # uncomment to avoid processing of calls to non-existing static files by Yii
        #location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
        #    try_files $uri =404;
        #}
        #error_page 404 /404.html;

        # deny accessing php files for the /assets directory
        location ~ ^/assets/.*\.php$ {
            deny all;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            try_files $uri =404;
        }
       
        location ~* /\. {
            deny all;
        }
    }
        
    server {
        charset utf-8;
        client_max_body_size 128M;
       
        listen 80; ## listen for ipv4
        #listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
       
        server_name backend.dev;
        root        /path/to/yii-application/backend/web/;
        index       index.php;
       
        access_log  /path/to/yii-application/log/backend-access.log;
        error_log   /path/to/yii-application/log/backend-error.log;
       
        location / {
            # Redirect everything that isn't a real file to index.php
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
        }
       
        # uncomment to avoid processing of calls to non-existing static files by Yii
        #location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
        #    try_files $uri =404;
        #}
        #error_page 404 /404.html;

        # deny accessing php files for the /assets directory
        location ~ ^/assets/.*\.php$ {
            deny all;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            try_files $uri =404;
        }
       
        location ~* /\. {
            deny all;
        }
    }

  5. Change the hosts file to point the domain to your server.

    • Windows: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
    • Linux: /etc/hosts

    Add the following lines:

    127.0.0.1   frontend.dev
127.0.0.1   backend.dev

To login into the application, you need to first sign up, with any of your email address, username and password. Then, you can login into the application with same email address and password at any time.

Note: if you want to run advanced template on a single domain so / is frontend and /admin is backend, refer to Using advanced project template at shared hosting.

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