Working with the sandbox release 

check out http://www.symfony-project.org/tutorial/my_first_project.html

Trouble shooting and QAs 

swith to mySql 

> how do you swith this over to mySql? Id like to get this runing on a full
> version of symfony (not sandbox) and mysql so i could feel i had a basis to
> go on and make some real world apps.

To use MySQL instead, make the following changes in sf_sandbox/config/propel.ini:

propel.targetPackage = model
propel.project = sf_sandbox
;propel.database = sqlite
;propel.database.createUrl = sqlite://./../../../../data/sandbox.db
;propel.database.url = sqlite://./../../../../data/sandbox.db
propel.database = mysql
propel.database.createUrl = mysql://mysqlUsername:password@localhost/
propel.database.url = mysql://mysqlUsername:password@localhost/sandbox
propel.mysql.tableType = InnoDB

I believe propel.output.dir should point to your project directory:

;propel.output.dir = /home/production/symfony-for-release/sf_sandbox
propel.output.dir = /var/www/sf_sandbox

Change sandbox_sf/config/databases.yml to use MySql:

dsn: mysql://mysqlUsername:password@localhost/sandbox

Install the php5-xsl package (I used Synaptic on ubuntu) for propel.

Uncomment the following line for php-cli in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini to include mysql for the command line interpreter:

;extension=mysql.so

This should do it.

donut on 2006-07-08

only the \_dev frontend works 

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=20687&#msg_20687

My sandbox works fine only if the _dev version is accessed:

I.e., visiting http://localhost/sf_sandbox/web/frontend_dev.php/post/list works fine, whereas http://localhost/sf_sandbox/web/post/list is not, which yield the folloiwng error:

Not Found The requested URL /sf_sandbox/web/post/list was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80

I can make it works by inserting a "index.php", eg, http://localhost/sf_sandbox/web/index.php/post/list

but as soon as I click on the 1st post, same thing happens again:

http://localhost/sf_sandbox/web/post/show/id/1 Not Found The requested URL /sf_sandbox/web/post/show/id/1 was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80

I'm using 1.0.0-rc1, the previous beta4 has the same problem as well.

only the \_dev frontend works 

you need to add/enable mod_rewrite in apache.

documented on: 2006-09-23, GUTomek

only the \_dev frontend works 

> My sandbox works fine only if the _dev version is accessed

set no_script_name to off in apps/frontend/config/settings.yml:

prod:
  .settings:
    no_script_name:           off

Then,

php symfony clear-cache

T

usernames and passwords 

> I don't know that any usernames and passwords were created by default, so
> now how do we create users so that we can login?

Ok, so I should have searched through the code for the word "admin" *before* wrote my last comment…I was obviously copying the tutorial code instead of *reading* it….DOH! I now see that admin/password is the default…

RJLyders on 2006-04-23

QAs 

REdOG on 2006-04-13 at 09:43

It would be nice if the "my first project" was done from scratch and not from sf_sandbox.

QAs 

torspo on 2006-01-26

I really don't like the VirtualHost thing. That is what pushed me away from this project to explore other projects such as Cake, but now I'm back since I didn't like it there.

Is there a simple way to start a new app in /www_root/myapp/ that would be accessed via http://localhost/myapp/ or \~user/public_html/myapp that would be accessed via http://localhost/\~user/myapp/ instead?

no need any more 

$ php symfony propel-build-model
Could not open input file: symfony
$ symfony propel-build-model
ERROR: symfony - You must create a schema.xml file.

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=12323&#msg_12323

symfony up to version 0.7.1914 (so include last stable ver) doesn't support propel-build-modle from a yml and it will get the "You must create a schema.xml file" error!

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=15529&&srch=create+schema.xml+symfony+ERROR+You+must#msg_15529

rename schema.xml.sampl to schema.xml

no longer true 

Note Due to the image paths in CSS files you will need to create sf/images/sf_admin/ folder in your document root and copy contents of sf_sandbox/web/sf/images/sf_admin/ folder there.

2006-03-27, Akinas

Not using VirtualHost 

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=20839&#msg_20839

If I use symfony from sandbox, I don't need to setup the web server, since the application is in the web/ root directory.

This is the desired situation that I want. If I want to go through the pear installation method, I can't put my application in the web/ root directory any more — the result looks terrible, I guess the CSS is missing, and the images too.

How could I tweak the pear installation so that it allows me to put my application in the web/ root directory, so I don't need to setup the virtual hosting?

PS.

I searched before I posted, and only found this un-answered request. I.e., people would even go somewhere else than to do the VirtualHost thing:

torspo on 2006-01-26

I really don't like the VirtualHost thing. That is what pushed me away from this project to explore other projects such as Cake, but now I'm back since I didn't like it there.

Is there a simple way to start a new app in /www_root/myapp/ that would be accessed via http://localhost/myapp/ or \~user/public_html/myapp that would be accessed via http://localhost/\~user/myapp/ instead?

Not using VirtualHost 

cd symfony_project
ln -s /usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf web

Not using VirtualHost 

It's almost certainly to do with the /sf alias not working. Try surfing to this:

http://localhost/sf/images/sf_web_debug/sf.png

The JS and the images are in the same subfolder, so I'd tweak the alias directive in your Apache root container. What is it set to presently?

documented on: 02 February 2007, halfer

Use from a normal user 

> Is there a simple way to start a new app in /www_root/myapp/ that would be
> accessed via http://localhost/myapp/[] or \~user/public_html/myapp that would
> be accessed via http://localhost/\~user/myapp/[] instead?

Yes!

Just install symphony underneath the webroot and create a symbolic link to the /symfony/web folder.

This is my setup.

/home/
/home/user/
/home/user/symfony
/home/user/symfony/web
/home/user/www
/home/user/public_html

The last two directories don't really exist. They're symbolic links to /home/user/symfony/web

Since in a production environ, you're not supposed to be able to access any other folders than /web this is okay.

documented on: 2007-02-07, Kay

mod_rewrite 

Subject: Dev environment not working

http://www.symfony-project.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=20779&&srch=comment#msg_20779

Everything seems to work fine *except* the mod_rewrite stuff in the default .htaccess file. In my error logs (httpd) I just get:

"child pid XXX exit signal Bus error (10)" for every attempt to load a page.

It barfs on these two rules:

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]

If I comment them out, the default page loads fine. But I don't know where that leaves me… I have no real knowledge of mod_rewrite or why it would be causing trouble.

mod_rewrite 

I'd recommend the fora at Apache Lounge as they have been very helpful for me. http://www.apachelounge.com/forum/

Incidentally, this rule does:

^           match from start of URI
(           start capturing sub pattern
[^.]+       match a number of characters that aren't a full stop
)           end capturing sub pattern
$           match up to end of URI
$1          replace with sub pattern 1
.html       literal

Can't remember what the QSA does - see the rewrite docs for that. Essentially this takes a URI and replaces it with the same thing suffixed with ".html".

documented on: 01 February 2007, halfer

Allowed memory exhausted 

Symptom 

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 785 bytes) in /usr/share/pear/symfony/util/sfToolkit.class.php on line 383

Solution Synopsis 

Memory problem when installing symfony via PEAR http://www.symfony-project.org/trac/wiki/SymfonyFAQ#MemoryproblemwheninstallingsymfonyviaPEAR

$ grep memory_limit /etc/php.ini
memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)
# increase it then
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

documented on: 2007.02.23