devilbox/docs/examples/setup-yii.rst

Setup Yii

This example will use composer to install Yii from within the PHP container.

Official Yii Documentation

Table of Contents

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Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name	VirtualHost directory	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-yii	/shared/httpd/my-yii	n.a.	loc	http://my-yii.loc

Walk through

It will be ready in six simple steps:

1. Enter the PHP container
2. Create a new VirtualHost directory
3. Install Yii2 via composer
4. Symlink webroot directory
5. Setup DNS record
6. Visit http://my-wp.loc in your browser

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1. Enter the PHP container

host> ./shell.sh

tutorial_work_inside_the_php_container

2. Create new vhost directory

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-yii

3. Install Yii2 via composer

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-yii
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-yii $ composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic yii2-dev

4. Symlink webroot

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-yii $ ln -s yii2-dev/web/ htdocs

5. DNS record

If you do not have global_configuration_auto_dns configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

127.0.0.1 my-yii.loc

For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: project_configuration_dns_records or global_configuration_auto_dns.

6. Open your browser

Open your browser at http://my-yii.loc