Creating the new application

First things first, let's create the initial Yii web application. We have already seen how easy this is to accomplish in Chapter 2. As we did there, we will assume the following:

• YiiRoot is the folder where you have installed Yii

• WebRoot is configured to be the document root of your web server (that is, to where http://localhost/ resolves)

So, from the command line, change to your WebRoot folder, and execute the following:

% cd WebRoot
% YiiRoot/framework/yiic webapp trackstar
Create a Web application under '/Webroot/trackstar'? [Yes|No] Yes

This provides us with our skeleton folder structure and our out of the box working application. You should be able to view the homepage of this new application by navigating to:

http://localhost/trackstar/index.php?r=site/index