topic-adding-more-apps.md

Adding more applications

While having separate frontend and backend is common, sometimes it's not enough. For example, you may need additional application for, say, a blog. In order to get it:

1. Copy frontend to blog, environments/dev/frontend to environments/dev/blog and environments/prod/frontend to environments/prod/blog.
2. Adjust namespaces and paths to start with blog instead of frontend.
3. In common\config\bootstrap.php add Yii::setAlias('blog', dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/blog');.
4. Make adjustments to environments/index.php (marked with +):

return [
    'Development' => [
        'path' => 'dev',
        'setWritable' => [
            'backend/runtime',
            'backend/web/assets',
            'frontend/runtime',
            'frontend/web/assets',
+           'blog/runtime',
+           'blog/web/assets',
        ],
        'setExecutable' => [
            'yii',
            'yii_test',
        ],
        'setCookieValidationKey' => [
            'backend/config/main-local.php',
            'frontend/config/main-local.php',
+           'blog/config/main-local.php',
        ],
    ],
    'Production' => [
        'path' => 'prod',
        'setWritable' => [
            'backend/runtime',
            'backend/web/assets',
            'frontend/runtime',
            'frontend/web/assets',
+           'blog/runtime',
+           'blog/web/assets',
        ],
        'setExecutable' => [
            'yii',
        ],
        'setCookieValidationKey' => [
            'backend/config/main-local.php',
            'frontend/config/main-local.php',
+           'blog/config/main-local.php',
        ],
    ],
];