Installing Yii 2.0 from an archive file

Webster · December 2, 2014, 1:54pm

Hi

I am new to yii especially 2.0. I try to install it, according to installation steps:

(http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-start-installation.html)

Installing from an Archive File

Installing Yii from an archive file involves three steps:

1, Download the archive file from yiiframework.com.


2, Unpack the downloaded file to a Web-accessible folder.


3, Modify the config/web.php file by entering a secret key for the cookieValidationKey configuration item (this is done automatically if you are installing Yii using Composer):

// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation

‘cookieValidationKey’ => ‘enter your secret key here’,

However they are not as clear as they look like in respect to step 3.

I have couple of questions:

1, what is the location of the config/web.php?

2, Or did you mean main.php file in root: …wamp\www\advanced\common\config\main.php?

3, or any other folder in which the file has to be created…

the other part shall i insert onto the file:

‘components’ => [

'request' =&gt; [


    


	'enableCookieValidation' =&gt; true,


    


	'enableCsrfValidation' =&gt; true,


    


	'cookieValidationKey' =&gt; 'YOUR SECRET KEY HERE&#33;&#33;&#33;',





	],





],

Or shall I insert only ‘cookieValidationKey’ => ‘YOUR SECRET KEY HERE!!!’ - Exactly Where???

Thanks for help

mmx · February 20, 2015, 9:46pm

Old post, but I will provide an answer for the thread. In the Basic application template, web.php is the equivalent to the main.php file for common/, backend/, and frontend. You can add those lines to the components block in advanced\common\config\main.php. The main.php for frontend/ and backend/ load the configuration files from common/.