Let us learn to deploy Zend Skeleton Application provided by ZendFramework as our Hello World Application.

1.Clone Zend framework 2 Skeleton Application in the server root. Go to your server root and clone the skeleton application on github:

#git clone https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git

You need to install before git to execute above command. If don’t have git installed then download the zip file from github. 2.Install Composer. It is a dependency manager for PHP.

#curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Update the Composer:

#php composer.phar self-update

3. Install all the dependencies for Zend Application using Composer. Go to the root of your Zend Application and execute following command:

#php composer.phar install

Above command will install all the dependencies defined in composer.json file. Zend framework 2 use Composer extensively to install the dependencies . All the dependencies r defined in composer.json files. 4. Set up the virtual host for your Zend Application. Open  /usr/local/zend/etc/sites.d/vhost_comm-app-80.conf file in any text editor, e.g vim:

# vim /usr/local/zend/etc/sites.d/vhost_comm-app-80.conf

vhost_comm-app-80.conf is the virtual host file in Zend Server. Add following codes in this file:

 

Line# 2 : helloworld.local is the name of server.
Line#3  : /var/www/helloworld/public is the path to public folder of our hello world application.
Line#4  : We have set the Application environment of Zend to Development Mode.

5. Tell you system that helloworld.local points to the local host and not  remote host. Open /etc/hosts using any text editor and add helloworld.local to the list of host.

#vim /etc/hosts

Add following line to /etc/hosts files:

127.0.0.1       hellowolrd.local

 

6. All set! Now restart Zend Server, open browser ad navigate to helloworld.local , you will see default page of Zend skeleton application.

# service zend-server restart