deployer/docs/recipe/yii.md

How to Deploy Yii

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How to deploy a Yii project with zero downtime?

• First, install the Deployer.
• Second, require recipe/yii.php recipe into your deploy.php or deploy.yaml file.
• Third, and now you can have a zero downtime deployment!

Did you know that you can deploy Yii project with a single command? Just run dep deploy. Something went wrong? Just run dep rollback to rollback your changes. Also, you can take an advantages of the Deployer's CLI to deploy your project.

Another feature of the Deployer is provisioning. Take any server, and run dep provision command. This command will configure webserver, databases, php, https, and more. You will get everything you need to run your Yii project.

Deployer does next steps to deploy Yii:

• Displays info about deployment
• Prepares host for deploy
• Locks deploy
• Prepares release
• Updates code
• Creates symlinks for shared files and dirs
• Makes writable dirs
• Installs vendors
• Creates symlink to release
• Unlocks deploy
• Cleanup old releases

The yii recipe is based on the common recipe.

Configuration

shared_dirs

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Overrides shared_dirs from recipe/deploy/shared.php.

Yii shared dirs

['runtime']

writable_dirs

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Overrides writable_dirs from recipe/deploy/writable.php.

Yii writable dirs

['runtime']

Tasks

deploy

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Deploys your project.

Main task

This task is group task which contains next tasks:

• deploy:prepare
• deploy:vendors
• deploy:publish