yaas

'Y'ii 'A'lternative 'A'pplication 'S'tructure - a skeleton Yii framework application directory structure based on what is used for the Yiiframework.com site itself and outlined in the wiki article: http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/155/the-directory-structure-of-the-yii-project-site

Directory Structure

The main directory contains the following directories:

• backend: a Yii Web application to hold non public-facing administrative functionality
• frontend: the front-end Yii Web application - this represents your public-facing website
• console: a Yii console application for your console and utility commands
• common: a directory housing any code or configuration that is to be shared across two or more of the above applications

Please read: http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/155/the-directory-structure-of-the-yii-project-site for more information on the directory struture

Quick Start

Download Yaas

And unpack to a local directory of your choosing

Install Yii

Then clone the latest read-only master branch of yii framework into common/lib/yii/ directory $ cd common/lib $ git clone https://github.com/yiisoft/yii.git yii

or you can download the desired version of the framework and move the contents of framework/ over to common/lib/yii. When completed, ensure that common/lib/yii/framework/yii.php exists.

Deploy the development environment

####copy development specific environment files from the env/development/ directory for each application

1. Copy all files from backend/env/development/config/ to backend/config/
2. Copy all files from backend/env/development/www/ to backend/www/
3. Copy all files from frontend/env/development/config/ to frontend/config/
4. Copy all files from frontend/env/development/www/ to frontend/www/
5. Copy all files from console/env/development/config/ to console/config/
6. Copy console/env/development/yiic.php to console/ 7 Copy all files from common/env/development/config/ to common/config/

$ cp -R backend/env/development/config/ backend/config/; cp -R backend/env/development/www/ backend/www/; cp -R frontend/env/development/config/ frontend/config/; cp -R frontend/env/development/www/ frontend/www/; cp -R console/env/development/config/ console/config/; cp -R console/env/development/yiic.php console/; cp -R common/env/development/config/params-local.php common/config/

Ensure web server has read + write access to the following directories:

backend/runtime/
backend/www/assets/
console/runtime/
frontend/runtime/
frontend/www/assets/

Setup Web Document Roots

Ensure that /frontend/www/ is an application webroot and /backend/www/ is also a webroot. These represent the frontend (public-facing) and backend (admin) applications. If using Apache web-server, one approach would be to setup vhosts that point to these directories as webroots. E.G. local.yaas.com -> frontend/www/ and local.admin.yaas.com -> backend/www This way, if you visit http://local.yaas.com in your browser, it will run the index.php entry script at frontend/www/index.php. And similarly for the backend admin site.

One Other Quick Config Change

Now that you have your frontend hostname setup, change the frontend.url setting in common/config/params-local.php to to match your setting