Setup Yii

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

See also

Official Yii Documentation

Table of Contents

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

See also

Available tools

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

5. DNS record

If you do not have 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):

/etc/hosts
 127.0.0.1 my-yii.loc

See also

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