How to Deploy a Yii2 Project

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Deployer is a free and open source deployment tool written in PHP. It helps you to deploy your Yii2 application to a server. It is very easy to use and has a lot of features.

Three main features of Deployer are:

Provisioning - provision your server for you.
Zero downtime deployment - deploy your application without a downtime.
Rollbacks - rollback your application to a previous version, if something goes wrong.

Additionally, Deployer has a lot of other features, like:

Easy to use - Deployer is very easy to use. It has a simple and intuitive syntax.
Fast - Deployer is very fast. It uses parallel connections to deploy your application.
Secure - Deployer uses SSH to connect to your server.
Supports all major PHP frameworks - Deployer supports all major PHP frameworks.

You can read more about Deployer in Getting Started.

The deploy task of Yii2 consists of:

deploy:prepare – Prepares a new release
- deploy:info – Displays info about deployment
- deploy:setup – Prepares host for deploy
- deploy:lock – Locks deploy
- deploy:release – Prepares release
- deploy:update_code – Updates code
- deploy:env – Configure .env file
- deploy:shared – Creates symlinks for shared files and dirs
- deploy:writable – Makes writable dirs
deploy:vendors – Installs vendors
deploy:migrate – Runs Yii2 migrations for your project
deploy:publish – Publishes the release
- deploy:symlink – Creates symlink to release
- deploy:unlock – Unlocks deploy
- deploy:cleanup – Cleanup old releases
- deploy:success – Deploys your project