Yii 2 Basic Project Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for rapidly creating small projects.
The template contains the basic features including user login/logout and a contact page. It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your application.
assets/ contains assets definition
commands/ contains console commands (controllers)
config/ contains application configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
mail/ contains view files for e-mails
models/ contains model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
tests/ contains various tests for the basic application
vendor/ contains dependent 3rd-party packages
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
The minimum requirement by this project template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.
Extract the archive file downloaded from yiiframework.com to
a directory named basic
that is directly under the Web root.
Set cookie validation key in config/web.php
file to some random secret string:
'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => '<secret random string goes here>',
],
You can then access the application through the following URL:
http://localhost/basic/web/
If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.
You can then install this project template using the following command:
php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.0.0"
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL, assuming basic
is the directory
directly under the Web root.
http://localhost/basic/web/
Edit the file config/db.php
with real data, for example:
return [
'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2basic',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '1234',
'charset' => 'utf8',
];
NOTE: Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.
Also check and edit the other files in the config/
directory to customize your application.
nginx config
server { charset utf-8; client_max_body_size 128M;
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4
server_name bistro39.com;
root /home/htdocs/bistro39.com/www/web;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/bistro39.com_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/bistro39.com_error.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
access_log off;
expires 360d;
try_files $uri =404;
}
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~ /\.(ht|svn|git) {
deny all;
}
}