The Composer Package Manager application can be used to create a private composer repository to manage private packages. Also this application function as a proxy for packagist.org. Packages can be stored locally for backup purposes. With this application you can guarantee that deployments on production servers doesn't depends on the availability of packagist.org or where the used packages are located. Also your protected against the removal of packages by the vendor when your software depends on it. You don't want to discover this while you're deploying on production, aren't you?
- Installing the Composer Package Manager application ===========
GIT should be installed, and accessible from your PATH. http://git-scm.com
SVN client application should be installed
ICU / INTL v.49 must be installed, this is not installed by default. https://github.com/jojo1981/cpm/master/INSTALL_ICU_INTL.md
Get from GitHup: https://github.com/jojo1981/cpm.git
git clone https://github.com/jojo1981/cpm.git
The following directories need to be created:
- ./app/tmp
- ./app/logs
- ./app/cache
- ./data/index
- ./data/packages
Make sure that the user under which the webserver runs, mostly apache or www-data has write access on the following directories:
- ./app/tmp
- ./app/logs
- ./app/cache
- ./data
Run this command in order to check whether all requirements are met.
php app/check.php
This application uses Composer to manage its dependencies
If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on http://getcomposer.org/ or just run the following command:
curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
the donwloaded composer.phar file can be placed into a directory which is listed into your PATH.
Then this application is installed server wide.
Then, use the install command to install the dependencies:
php composer.phar install
Composer will install all the dependencies into the /vendor directory
IMPORTANT: For windows users, PHP >=5.4.0 must be installed in order to let the git downloader to work when not triggered by a cli script but by a browser call.
Edit composer.json file
change:
"php": ">=5.3.3",
into:
"php": ">=5.4.*",
Run the update command to update the composer.lock file and install the dependencies:
php composer.phar update
Create the parameters.yml file by copying ./app/config/parameters.dist.yml to ./app/config/parameters.yml
Create the .htaccess by copying ./web/htaccess.dist.php to ./web/.htaccess, this file is responsible for setting the application environment in which the
application must run and that all request will go through the front controller: index.php
Edit the new .htaccess file and remove the following content form the file:
<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die();
/*
* Rename this file to .htaccess and remove this content, the block <?php ?>
*/
?>
Set application environment by editing .htaccess file, change the value after: SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV prod
Make sure the Apache vhost configuration has the option: AllowOverride All in order to use the .htaccess file.
php bin/build_bootstrap
or
php ./vendor/sensio/distribution-bundle/Sensio/Bundle/DistributionBundle/Resources/bin/build_bootstrap.php
1.9.1 Setup database connection
Edit the file ./app/configs/parameters.yml
Change the database settings:
parameters:
database_driver: pdo_mysql
database_host: localhost
database_port: ~
database_name:
database_user:
database_password:
The ~ means use default MySQL port (3306), you can set a different port if your database server is listening to a different port.
1.9.2 Install assets
Run the following command to install all assets:
php ./app/console assets:install --env=prod
1.9.3 Build database
Run the following command to generate the database structure:
php ./app/console doctrine:schema:create
Run the follwing queries on the database:
INSERT INTO `languages` (`id`, `name`, `code`, `active`, `sortorder`) VALUES ('1', 'Nederlands', 'nl', '1', '1');
INSERT INTO `languages` (`id`, `name`, `code`, `active`, `sortorder`) VALUES ('2', 'English', 'en', '1', '2');
INSERT INTO `languages` (`id`, `name`, `code`, `active`, `sortorder`) VALUES ('3', 'Deutsch', 'de', '1', '3');
You can add the following VirtualHost to your apache virtualhost configuration file (for instance http-vhosts.conf)
http-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# the domain name
ServerName cpm.localhost
# Change to your email address
ServerAdmin admin@localhost
# Change the path to the location of cpm (add /web to the end of the path)
DocumentRoot "/var/www/cpm/web"
<Directory "/var/www/cpm/web">
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/cpm-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/cpm-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
- Configuration
- Use the application