Creating a Yii application

directory-structure

- checkably
  - app
    - assets
    - css
    - images
    - protected
    - themes
    - index-test.php
    - index.php
  - yii
    - build
    - demos
    - docs
    - framework
    - requirements
    - tests

edit-hosts-with-nano

$ sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

edit-virtual-host

$ sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

hosts

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

127.0.0.1       mysql.loc
127.0.0.1       checkably.loc

htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

navigate-to-the-folder

#create a directory called "checkably"...
$ mkdir ~/path/to/checkably

# navigate to the directory...
$ cd ~/path/to/checkably/

# clone Yii...
$ git clone https://github.com/yiisoft/yii.git

# create the application in the "checkably/app" directory ...
$ php yii/framework/yiic.php webapp app

virtual-host.xml

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/checkably/app"
    ServerName checkably.loc
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        <Directory "/path/to/checkably/app">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>