Transfering live yii2 website to localhost

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I have a live website built on yii2 framework and i want to test it localy using MAMP ,I created a new database named demoDB in phpmyadmin and import sql from live one, the updated database configuration inside the common/config/main.php file to the my local database authentication settings.

'db' => [
        'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
        'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=demoDB',
         'username' => 'demo',
        'password' => 'demopass111',
        'charset' => 'utf8',
    ],

but when i run MAMP the frontend only show directory like this

frontend path

I also tried to run command

php yii serve

on project file but i got this error

Document root "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/demoweb/console/web" does not exist.

anyone can help what I'm missing

Joy Kumar Bera · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-08 04:21:23Z

1

you need to point your server document root to the right location.

in case of yii2 it has two separate folder called backend and frontend.

so if you try to serve your site using php built-in server you can use the following command from your project root to serve your site locally.

php -S localhost:3000 -t frontend/web/ for the frontend part

php -S localhost:8000 -t backend/web/ for the backend part

and your frontend and backend will be available at http://localhost:3000/ and http://localhost:8000/ respectively.

you can choose the port as your need. For example i use here 3000 and 8000.

answered Aug 8, 2020 at 4:21

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