It's ready to use Yii2 playground that can be handy for Yii2 contributors.

Stack

Software	Version
PHP	7.3
MySQL	5.7
PostgreSQL	9.5
SQLite	2.8 and 3.11

Also the box contains:

• yii2-basic-app
• Nginx, php-fpm / cli
• Composer
• xDebug
• htop, mc (Midnight Commander)

Installation

Manual for Linux/Unix users

1. Install VirtualBox

2. Install Vagrant

3. Do the first and second steps according to the Yii2 contributor guide

4. Create GitHub personal API token

5. Prepare project:

   git clone https://github.com/rugabarbo/yii2-contributor-vagrant.git
   cd yii2-contributor-vagrant/vagrant/config
   cp vagrant-local.example.yml vagrant-local.yml

6. Place your GitHub personal API token to vagrant-local.yml

7. Place path to your local yii2 repository to vagrant-local.yml (by default it's ../yii2)

8. Change directory to project root:

   cd yii2-contributor-vagrant

9. Run command:

   vagrant up

That's all. You just need to wait for completion! After that you can access basic app (linked with Yii2 playground) locally by URLs: http://l.y2cv-basic-app.test

Manual for Windows users

1. Install VirtualBox

2. Install Vagrant

3. Reboot

4. Do the first and second steps according to the Yii2 contributor guide

5. Create GitHub personal API token

6. Prepare project:

   • download repo rugabarbo/yii2-contributor-vagrant
   • unzip it
   • go into directory yii2-contributor-vagrant-master/vagrant/config
   • copy vagrant-local.example.yml to vagrant-local.yml

7. Place your GitHub personal API token to vagrant-local.yml

8. Place path to your local yii2 repository to vagrant-local.yml (by default it's ../yii2)

9. Open terminal (cmd.exe), change directory to project root and run command:

   vagrant up

   (You can read here how to change directories in command prompt)

That's all. You just need to wait for completion! After that you can access basic app (linked with Yii2 playground) locally by URLs: http://l.y2cv-basic-app.test