Installing and Configuring Symfony2 on Windows

Overview

Notes and instructions on installing Symfony2 on Windows, including notes and instructions on setting up a new project.

Prerequisites

See Symfony: Requirements for Running Symfony2

• Composer, a dependency management library for PHP
  • Can be installed anywhere on the local computer.
  • littledamienii: c:/Composer
  • Using Composer:

    > php composer.phar

Creating a new project

See Symfony Documentation: Installing and Configuring Symfony

• Download Symfony distribution:

  > php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition /path/to/webroot/Symfony/ 2.3.4

  • php composer.phar
    • Use Composer to download and install.
    • If composer.phar cannot be located use php c:\Composer\composer.phar
  • create-project "Create project" parameter.
  • symfony/framework-standard-edition
    • Symfony distribution to install.
    • TODO: Investigate options and determine best one. Esp. standard distribution vs. distribution without vendors.
  • /path/to/webroot/Symfony/
    • Location of the Symfony project.
    • E.g. ./develop/littledamien/newproject/
    • TODO: A directory named web is installed below Symfony/ or newproject/. This is where requests are routed. All other files and directories should be non-public. Figure out the best naming convention for the project root directory, and where on the staging and production servers it should be located relative to public directories.
  • 2.3.4 The version of Symfony to install.
• Create a new site in IIS.
  • The root directory of the site is [drive]:[\base\path\]newproject\web\
• Test the new installation.
  • http://newproject.dbarchowsky.com/config.php
    • This will list recommendations to create an optimal environment for Symfony.
    • It's necessary to add the static IP of the gateway to the list of allowed IP address in web/config.php.
  • If not connecting to the site using http://localhost, edit web/app_dev.php to add the remote address to the list of allowed addresses.
  • In a browser go to http://newproject.dbarchowsky.com/app_dev.php.
  • A welcome page should load. If it does, the site is ready for development.
  • See also, removing sample scripts from the distribution.

See also

• Symfony Documentation: Installing and Configuring Symfony
• Symfony: Requirements for Running Symfony2
• Kev Web Dev: Installing PHP 5.4 on Windows 7 for Developing With Symfony2