Advanced Template App with Github and Composer

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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I created an advanced template app on one computer, checked it into Github. Then cloned the repository to a new computer (computer B). But many files don’t exist in the github repository. With Yii2, I’m using Composer as a newbie.

What are the right steps to create a fully working version of the cloned repository?

Do I run init on the new computer B?

How do tell Composer to update the vendor folder et al?

Anything else that needs to be done?

Thanks!

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  • composer update

  • init

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Thanks - I finally figured that out. But on my Mac dev box, I needed to run sudo with php init or it didn’t create the index.php files - it also didn’t give error msgs.

Any idea on how to configure composer and the init file to not require sudo?

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It could be permissions issue. Check that user you’re executing composer from has all necessary permissions.