Installing and Configuring Symfony2 on Windows

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Overview

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

Prerequisites[1]

  • Composer, a dependency management library for PHP
    • Can be installed anywhere on the local computer.[2]
      > curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    • littledamienii: c:/Composer
    • Using Composer: 
      > php composer.phar

Creating a new project[3]

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. Leave this off to install the most recent version.

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.

Dev environment

Simply visiting the site will load the production environment (web/app.php).

To load the development environment, load the site using `http://[siteurl.com]/app_dev.php[/path/to/page/]`.

See also

External links

Notes

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  1. ↑ Requirements for Running Symfony2, Symfony
  2. ↑ Download Composer
  3. ↑ Installing and Configuring Symfony, Symfony Documentation
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