To provide us with a common starting ground, a skeleton project has been included with the project resources for this chapter. Included with this skeleton project are the necessary migrations, data files, controllers, and views to get us started with developing. Also included in this skeleton project are the user authentication classes we worked on in Chapter 5, Creating a Microblogging Platform. Copy this skeleton project to your web server, configure it so that it responds to chapter6.example.com as outlined at the beginning of the chapter, and then perform the following steps to make sure everything is set up:
Adjust the permissions on the
assetsandprotected/runtimefolders so that they are writable by your web server.In this chapter, we'll once again use the latest version of MySQL (at the time of writing MySQL 5.6). Make sure that your MySQL server is set up and running on your server. Then, create a username, password, and database for our project to use,...