Installation

In previous section we came to know about Apache Xampp/Lampp installation on Linux machine. At present I will not steps of installation of lampp on Windows machine.  Now I will provide the link for Lampp/Xampp installation on windows you can follow it and install it. It is also very easy.

Lampp/Xampp installation on Windows : Click Here 

YII Installation

In this section we will know about installation of YII framework.

Download YII Framework

Go to here . Here you will find download option you can download the Yii Framework package from here.

Download Link for YII framework : Click Here

Extract the Zip file

Go to command prompt and type

> sudo tar -xvf  yii-1.1.12.b600af.tar.gz

>sudo cp -R yii-1.1.12.b600 /opt/lampp/htdocs/

>sudo mv  yii-1.1.12.b600 yii                           

Here we unzipping the extracted Yii file and transferring it to /opt/lampp/htdocs folder. and we are renaming the yii-1.1.12.b600 directory to yii.
 
Note:  Here downloaded file name can be different for you. 3rd step is optional. But better to change it show that you will not get trouble in future.

Test

Type http://localhost/yii in web browser.

Here you go you have installed Yii framework. Installation is done.

You have seen that YII installation is very easy. In next tutorial we will know about how to start working with YII framework.