Installing Symfony2 on Centos 6

Symfony2 framework looks like it provide many useful development tools.

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Pre installation check list for Symfony2.1.

1. Installed and running Apache httpd
2. Installed php 5.3 or higher
3. Installed GIT 1.7 or higher

Install PHP
Lots of resources available online.

Ensure additional php packages are installed, including

• php-cli
• php-intl
• php-mysql (if you use MySQL database)
• php-gd
• php-pecl-apc
• php-mbstring

Check that /etc/php/ini timezone is edited.
Example;
date.timezone = "Asia/Kuala_Lumpur"

Install GIT

sudo yum install git-core

Install Composer for PHP

cd /var/www/html

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


Install Symfony2.1
Step 1: Download from http://symfony.com/download and extract


tar xvzf Symfony_Standard_Vendors_2.1.6.tgz

Read the text file Symfony/README.md

cp composer.phar Symfony

Step 2: Basic configuration



Step 3: Create your first Symfony2 project

cd /var/www/html/Symfony

php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition /var/www/html/mysymfony 2.1.6

Where

• create-project is the command to create a project with 3 arguments
• symfony/framework-standard-edition is the framework to be installed
• /var/www/html/mysymfony is the new directory or project name to be created and installed with base project files
• 2.1.6 is the version

Use a web browser to check installed project at

http://localhost/mysymfony/web/config.php

If there is an error, please fix before continuing. I received 2 errors to fix the directory permission for app/cache and app/logs

chown -Rf apache.apache app/logs app/cache


Note: I found following discussion useful

http://forum.symfony-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=45892