Installation

Yii is a web application framework, so the first thing you need is a web server. Yii is capable of running on most common HTTP servers, but the platform of choice for project maintainers and testers is Apache on Linux. NGINX is also a good choice, and you can also run Yii on Windows servers with Apache or Microsoft's IIS server.

All instructions in this section assume the Linux (or Mac OS) environment with an Apache server.