Set up a Yii 2.0 Application in Windows

PHP Yii 2.0 Framework

In this article we are going to setup a Yii 2.0 Application on local PC. We will setup Yii 2.0 advanced application on Windows alongwith:

• Connection with MySQL
• Enabling Pretty URLs
• Virtual Hosts (for backend and frontend)
• Installing AdminLTE Theme

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Installing the project

Let’s install the application in our PC using Composer (you should install composer first if you don’t have already).

Head over to your xampp/htdocs folder and run this command in cmd:

composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced ows-yii2-application

The application will be installed in ‘ows-yii2-application’ directory/folder. You can rename it according to your project name