README

Not Just A Blog Based On Yii 2 Advanced Application Template

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by this application template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

INSTALLATION

Install from an Archive File

Extract the archive file downloaded from Release to a directory named kBlog_with_yii2 that is directly under the Web root.Please Install The Old Version Only By This Way.

Then follow the instructions given in "GETTING STARTED".

Install via Composer

If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.

You can then install the application using the following command:

php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.0.0"
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev kangqf/kblog_with_yii2 kblog

GETTING STARTED

After you install the application, you have to conduct the following steps to initialize the installed application. You only need to do these once for all.

1. Run command init to initialize the application with a specific environment.
2. Create a new database and adjust the components['db'] configuration in common/config/main-local.php accordingly.
3. Apply migrations with console command yii migrate. This will create tables needed for the application to work.
4. Set document roots of your Web server:

• for frontend /path/to/yii-application/frontend/web/ and using the URL http://frontend/
• for backend /path/to/yii-application/backend/web/ and using the URL http://backend/
• for backend /path/to/yii-application/api/web/ and using the URL http://api/