The xenframework skeleton-app is the best distribution to use when starting a new project.

The recommended way to get a working copy of this project is to clone the repository and use composer to install dependencies using the create-project command:

Install composer

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php --

And now install the skeleton-app using composer

php composer.phar create-project -sdev xenframework/skeleton-app myproject

If you did a global install and do not have the phar in that directory run this instead:

composer create-project -sdev xenframework/skeleton-app myproject

Alternately, clone the repository and manually invoke composer using the shipped composer.phar:

mkdir myproject
cd myproject
git clone https://github.com/xenframework/skeleton-app.git --recursive
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install

(The self-update directive is to ensure you have an up-to-date composer.phar available.)

Another alternative is to download it from github:

https://github.com/xenframework/skeleton-app

You would then invoke composer to install dependencies per the previous example.

The simplest way to get started if you are using PHP 5.4 or above is to start the internal PHP cli-server in the root directory:

cd myproject
php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public/ public/index.php

This will start the cli-server on port 8080, and bind it to all network interfaces.

**Note: ** The built-in CLI server is for development only.

Once you have created your project, you must now create a new virtual host in your apache installation.

Go to your apache config folder and look for sites-available sub folder.

cd sites-available

Create now a new file called myproject.local with this content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName myproject.local
    DocumentRoot /path_to/myproject.local/public
    ErrorLog "/path_to/myproject.local/logs/error_log"
    CustomLog "/path_to/myproject.local/logs/access_log" common

    <Directory /path_to/myproject.local/public/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Go now to sites-enabled directory and create a symlink to the previous created file

ln -s ../sites-available/myproject.local myproject.local

Finally we need to create a new entry in the /etc/hosts like this

127.0.0.1    myproject.local

Remember to restart apache

apachectl restart