Yii 2 Basic Application Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for rapidly developing small Websites containing mainly informational pages.

The template contains the basic features including user login/logout and a contact page. It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your application.

  commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
  config/             contains application configurations
  controllers/        contains Web controller classes
  models/             contains model classes
  runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
  vendor/             contains dependent 3rd-party packages
  views/              contains view files for the Web application
  web/                contains the entry script and Web resources

The minimum requirement by this application template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

Extract the archive file downloaded from yiiframework.com to a directory named basic that is directly under the Web root.

You can then access the application through the following URL:

http://localhost/basic/web/

If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.

You can then install this application template using the following command:

php composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL, assuming basic is the directory directly under the Web root.

http://localhost/basic/web/