Let’s setup a Yii 2.0 Application on local PC. We will setup Yii 2.0 advanced application on Windows alongwith:
- Connection with MySQl
- Enabling Pretty URLs
- Virtual Hosts (for backend and frontend)
- Installing AdminLTE Theme
Installing the project
Let’s install the application in our PC using Composer (you should install composer first if you don’t have already).
Head over to your xampp/htdocs folder and run this command in cmd:
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced ows-yii2-application
The application will be installed in ‘ows-yii2-application’ directory/folder. You can rename it according to your project name
Enter into the folder ‘ows-yii2-application’ in cmd and then run the command:
init
Choose ‘0’ or ‘dev’ to initialize the application in development environment.
Run the following command to install dependencies:
composer install
You now have the working application in your local PC. Turn on your Apache server using XAMPP/WAMP or any other server that you use and headover to
localhost/ows-yii2-application/backend/web
and
localhost/ows-yii2-application/frontend/web
DB Connection with MySQL
Make a database in your local machine with name ‘ows_database’. To connect to this database, go to common/config/main-local.php and set dbname to
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=ows\_database',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => ''
(and edit the username and password also if you have changed them otherwise leave it as it is)
Now, run the command
yii migrate
This will generate the user table in your database and RBAC tables as well for future use.
Now, Go to
http://localhost/ows-yii2-application/frontend/web/index.php?r=site%2Fsignup
And create a user with
username : testusername
password : testpassword
Now, you can login into the application using these credentials.
Enabling Pretty URLs
Currently, the URL looks like:
http://localhost/ows-yii2-application/backend/web/index.php?r=site%2Flogin
but we want it to be as follows:
http://localhost/ows-yii2-application/backend/web/login
In order to enable pretty URLs, go to backend\config\main.php and uncomment the following code in $components‘urlManager’:
'urlManager' => [
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => [
'<alias:\w+>' => 'site/<alias>',
],
],
Make a .htaccess file with the following code and place it in backend/web folder:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
Do the same in frontend application.
Virtual Hosts
Now, we want to run our backend and frontend applications from two different and easy to remember domains/server names. Like:
admin.ows-yii2-application.com for backend application
and
ows-yii2-application.com for frontend application.
In order to achieve that, copy and paste the following in your httpd-vhosts file, most likely on ‘xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts’ (Make sure to change the DocumentRoot to set it as your own web directory)
<VirtualHost \*:80>
ServerName admin.ows-yii2-application.com
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp\htdocs\ows-yii2-application\backend\web"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost \*:80>
ServerName ows-application.com
DocumentRoot "E:\xampp\htdocs\ows-yii2-application\frontend\web"
</VirtualHost>
and the following in your hosts file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc (you may be required to open the file in Administrator mode):
127.0.0.1 admin.ows-yii2-application.com
127.0.0.1 ows-yii2-application.com
Restart your Apache server.
Now, you can access your backend and frontend applications on admin.ows-yii2-application.com and ows-yii2-application.com respectively.
Installing AdminLTE Theme in Yii 2.0 Application
Let’s now setup the AdminLTE Theme with our application as well. Run the following command
composer require dmstr/yii2-adminlte-asset "^2.1"
Now, go to frontend/config/main.php and add this in components[‘view’]
'view' => [
'theme' => [
'pathMap' => [
'@app/views' => '@vendor/dmstr/yii2-adminlte-asset/example-views/yiisoft/yii2-app'
],
],
],
Follow the similar steps for the backend application if you want to enable the AdminLTE theme in backend application too.
Conclusion
So we have successfully set up our Yii 2.0 Application, a great PHP Framework. You can find all this stuff in my repository at:
https://github.com/ows-ali/ows-yii2-application
if you don’t understand anything. Also, if you are new to Github and want to learn the basics, then give it a read:
Learn Git and Github Step By Step
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