- Symfony Messenger
To get it working, follow these steps:
Download Composer dependencies
Make sure you have Composer installed and then run:
composer install
You may alternatively need to run php composer.phar install
, depending
on how you installed Composer.
Configure the .env (or .env.local) File
Open the .env
file and make any adjustments you need - specifically
DATABASE_URL
. Or, if you want, you can create a .env.local
file
and override any configuration you need there (instead of changing
.env
directly).
Setup the Database
Again, make sure .env
is setup for your computer. Then, create
the database & tables!
php bin/console doctrine:database:create
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
If you get an error that the database exists, that should
be ok. But if you have problems, completely drop the
database (doctrine:database:drop --force
) and try again.
Compiling Webpack Encore Assets
This tutorial uses Webpack Encore, which isn't important to understand what's going on, but is important to get our app running. Make sure to install Node and also npm. Then run:
npm install
npm run dev
Start the built-in web server
You can use Nginx or Apache, but Symfony's local web server works even better.
To install the Symfony local web server, follow "Downloading the Symfony client" instructions found here: https://symfony.com/download - you only need to do this once on your system.
Then, to start the web server, open a terminal, move into the project, and run:
symfony serve
(If this is your first time using this command, you may see an
error that you need to run symfony server:ca:install
first).
Now check out the site at https://localhost:8000