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Symfony 3 is a framework what makes developing easy. All the components are modular, so we can easily use and extend it. One of the nice features is the Symfony CLI. To create a new project, we can use this tool in the terminal.

First we need to install Symfony CLI. To do this simply execute in a terminal the following commands. It will create a command in the bin folder and make it executable.

Set-up the project

To start creating a project, we can use the Symfony CLI. With the command we can create a new software project. In your case, you can change DevShop by any name you like. It will create a project containing the project root and different folders. Composer file will be set-up, so you can later install packages and create symlinks for the public files (css, js and images)

This can take a while, when it downloads the source code. You will see the progress.

Run the project

After finishing the new project. You get a small summary with information about the project. If you go to the project folder. You can execute the command:

php bin/console server:start

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName shop.dev
    ServerAlias www.shop.dev

    DocumentRoot /var/www/DevShop/web
    <Directory /var/www/DevShop/web>
        AllowOverride None
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            Options -MultiViews
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

    # uncomment the following lines if you install assets as symlinks
    # or run into problems when compiling LESS/Sass/CoffeeScript assets
    # <Directory /var/www/project>
    #     Options FollowSymlinks
    # </Directory>

    # optionally disable the RewriteEngine for the asset directories
    # which will allow apache to simply reply with a 404 when files are
    # not found instead of passing the request into the full symfony stack
    <Directory /var/www/project/web/bundles>
        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            RewriteEngine Off
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/project_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/project_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

127.0.0.1          www.shop.dev shop.dev

<?php

/**
 * @Route("/", name="homepage")
 * @Method({"GET"})
 */
public function indexAction()
{
    return $this->render('@App/default/index.html.twig');
}