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Get Symfony Installed in 20 Minutes On Vista
Get Symfony Installed in 20 Minutes On Vista
Vista
Posted by: ThinkingSerious
in Programming, Symfony
Interest in Symfony has increased since del.icio.us announced it developed its new
version on the Symfony framework. If you are running Vista and you need to get a
quick Symfony development environment going, then look no further. Follow these
easy steps to going in 20 minutes.
1. Install XAMPP
2. Install Symfony
Now you need to allow for write access to the cache and log folder.
1. Traverse to each those two directories seperately within your newly Symfony
file structure with Explorer.
2. Right click on each of the folders and choose properties
3. Go to the security tab and choose the user that will be granted the permissions
and click edit.
1. Note: You can find out the user by Cntrl+Alt+Delete, and then starting
the task manager. Note the User Name.
4. Allow that person to have full control.
NEXT STEPS
You will also want to setup TortoiseSVN or use SVN from inside Cygwin for a version
control client.
If you prefer learning on paper, I suggest you check out the official Symfony book: The
Definitive Guide to symfony (Definitive Guide). Or read it online free here.