'Invalid path alias: @web/themes/spacelab'

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Yii2 advanced template.

I had this error:

exception ‘yii\base\InvalidParamException’ with message ‘Invalid path alias: @web/themes/spacelab’ in /var/www/yiiadvanced/_protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/BaseYii.php:152

It appeared when I turned back from production environment to development environment.

Initially all worked fine.

This happens in frontend, backend works fine.

2

I’m not very familar with the advanced template but lets try to figure out what is going wrong:

  • When you now switch back to production?

  • Does it work again?

  • In whitch local path do you store your template?

I’m asking because as far as I know you have multiple web folders.

app/frontend/web

app/backend/web

Regarding the documentation @web is pointing to the web folder of the currently running application. (and frontend / backend are seperate applications)

Means (when I understand it correct):

If you have the theme only under /app/backend/web you will have "invalid path" in frontend.

Regards

3

I have production in host server and development in local server.

Frontend and backend are seperated in _protected folder.

Themes are in public folder.

This works in backend …config/main.php:

‘components’ => [

    'view' => [


        'theme' => [


            'pathMap' => ['@app/views' => '@webroot/themes/spacelab/views'],


            'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/spacelab',


        ],.....

It is same in frontend, but does’t work.

4

OK. I solved this, not very stylish way.

In local server I switched to production and changed my local setting by hand, not by php init.