Local installation - HeavyDots/heavyCMS GitHub Wiki

This displays steps to install HeavyCMS locally, for local development of the CMS.

Clone repo

Clone from https://github.com/HeavyDots/heavyCMS

Install composer

Tip: First check your php version because you should use 5.6 binary. If you have different versions of PHP installed, please use full path. Example: /opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php

https://getcomposer.org/download/

Windows (Command Line):

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '669656bab3166a7aff8a7506b8cb2d1c292f042046c5a994c43155c0be6190fa0355160742ab2e1c88d40d5be660b410') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Or Linux:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Install composer plugin

php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.2.0"

Install vendors

php composer.phar install

Init app

chmod +x init
./init

Or simply init on Windows.

Database

Create empty db and set credentials in common/config/main-local.php

Run database migrations

yii migrate

Create vhosts

Create Apache Vhosts

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName www.heavycms.local
   DocumentRoot "C:\Projects\heavyCMS\frontend\web"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName admin.heavycms.local
   DocumentRoot "C:\Projects\heavyCMS\backend\web"
</VirtualHost>

Now restart Apache.

Hosts file

Open Notepad with Admin rights on Windows and edit the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

127.0.0.1	www.heavycms.local
127.0.0.1	admin.heavycms.local

Configure urls for front and back

In file common/config/params-local.php

Create admin user

Go to http://www.heavycms.local/signup and register admin user