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. This template also removes the basic/web from the url.
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.
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:^1.2.0"
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev frixou89/yii2-basic-app-dotenv 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/
Download and extract the archive file 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/
Copy .env.dist and rename it to .env
Edit the .env file with real data, for example:
To create user table you need to run Yii migrate from the root directory
php yii migrate