Yii2 GitHub Browser App
Yii2 GitHub Browser App was built on Yii 2 Basic Project Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for
rapidly creating small projects., (*1)
REQUIREMENTS
The minimum requirement by this project template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0., (*2)
VIRTUAL HOST CONFIGURATION
1) C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
add lines:, (*3)
127.0.0.1 your-name-site.local
127.0.0.1 www.your-name-site.local
2) For your local server must change httpd-vhosts.conf.
For example in my case find
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
and add lines:, (*4)
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/your-name-site/web/"
ServerName your-name-site.local
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/your-name-site/web/">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
INSTALLATION
Step 1 - install APP from an Archive File
Click «Download ZIP» on https://github.com/alenkasun/yii2-github-browser and unzip in local site
âŠ\your-name-site\, so you must receive the next structure in local site root::, (*5)
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
....
Step 2 - install dependency libs via Composer
If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions
at getcomposer.org., (*6)
Install folder VENDOR with all dependency libs via Copmoser:
open cmd.exe in site root (shirt + command from context menu) and perform:, (*7)
- if composer was installed globally:
composer self-update
composer install
- else:
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install
As a result there is a folder VENDOR at site root., (*8)
DATABASE CONFIGURATION
Database installation
Create new BD and import github_browser.sql via convinient BD-client
(example: via phpMyAdmin or HeidiSql)., (*9)
Database config
Edit the file config/db.php
with real data, for example:, (*10)
return [
'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=github_browser',
'username' => 'git',
'password' => 'git',
'charset' => 'utf8',
];
Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL:, (*11)
http://your-name-site.local/