Yii 2 Advanced Project Installation
1. Download Yii2 Advanced from official site:
i. Go to:
http://www.yiiframework.com/download/
And click on the link
Yii 2 with advanced application template
OR
Directly visit: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/releases/download/2.0.6/yii-advanced-app-2.0.6.tgz
ii. Now place the extracted folder on your local server's
htdocs folder. Say folder name is
yii2advanced. In my case using xampp from windows 7. So placed on
C:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced.
2. Create Database and Connect.
i. Create a empty Database using PHPMyAdmin. Say database name is "yii2advanced"
.
ii. Update database details on
yii2advanced\common\config\main-local.php.
3. Run init and yii migrate commands.
i. Go to installed path on your command line tool.
c:\> cd xampp/htdocs/yii2advanced
ii. Run init command.
c:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced>init // Select dev / product environment.
iii. Now run yii migrate on same location.
c:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced>yii migrate
Now you can see the frontend and backend on following urls
Backend: http://locahost/yii2advanced/backend/web/
Frontend: http://locahost/yii2advanced/frontend/web/
4. Remove index.php from URL(Enable Pretty URL).
Now we are going to remove index.php and query parameters like r=controller/action from URL.
i. Create .htaccess files in frontend/web and backend/web folders with below codes.
RewriteEngine on
# If a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
ii. Add urlManager component inside common/config/main.php as described below.
'components' => [
// Your other components.
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
// Disable index.php
'showScriptName' => false,
// Disable r= routes
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'rules' => array(
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
),
],
],
Now we have to remove front/web from url.
To remove front/web from URL you have to follow Step 5 OR Step 6.
5. Remove frontend/web through .htaccess
i. Create a .htacces file on root direcctory(C:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced\) with following lines.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ frontend/web/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# Deny accessing below extensions
<Files ~ "(.json|.lock|.git)">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
# Deny accessing dot files
RewriteRule (^\.|/\.) - [F]
ii. Create a .htacces file on frontend/web(C:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced\frontend\web) with following lines.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
iii. Update your common config's main.php file(C:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced\common\config\main.php) as below
<?php
return [
'vendorPath' => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/vendor',
'components' => [
'cache' => [
'class' => 'yii\caching\FileCache',
],
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
// Disable index.php
'showScriptName' => false,
// Disable r= routes
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'rules' => array(
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
),
],
],
];
iv. Update your frontend config's main.php file(C:\xampp\htdocs\yii2advanced\frontend\config\main.php) as below
<?php
$params = array_merge(
require(__DIR__ . '/../../common/config/params.php'),
require(__DIR__ . '/../../common/config/params-local.php'),
require(__DIR__ . '/params.php'),
require(__DIR__ . '/params-local.php')
);
use \yii\web\Request;
$baseUrl = str_replace('/frontend/web', '', (new Request)->getBaseUrl());
return [
'id' => 'app-frontend',
'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
'bootstrap' => ['log'],
'controllerNamespace' => 'frontend\controllers',
'components' => [
'request' => [
'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
],
'user' => [
'identityClass' => 'common\models\User',
'enableAutoLogin' => true,
],
'log' => [
'traceLevel' => YII_DEBUG ? 3 : 0,
'targets' => [
[
'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',
'levels' => ['error', 'warning'],
],
],
],
'errorHandler' => [
'errorAction' => 'site/error',
],
'urlManager' => [
'baseUrl' => $baseUrl,
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => []
]
],
'params' => $params,
];
All are done, now you can start developing your project.
Now you can see the frontend and backend on following urls
Frontend: http://locahost/yii2advanced/
Backend: http://locahost/yii2advanced/backend/web/
6. Remove frontend/web by registering vhost for front and back end.
i. Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.php and add two new urls for your front and backends.
127.0.0.1 frontend.yii2advanced.com
127.0.0.1 backend.yii2advanced.com
ii. Now open C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file and map locations for above created urls.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName frontend.yii2advanced.com
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/advanced_wp/frontend/web/"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/advanced_wp/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.yii2advanced.com
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/advanced_wp/backend/web/"
<Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/advanced_wp/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>
Now our site is ready visit front and back end sites on following urls respectively.
http://frontend.yii2advanced.com
http://backend.yii2advanced.com
