yii command running from vendor/bin doesn't load config

[garrettw]

I have noticed when using the official yii2 docker image that running the yii command in the project root (which refers to vendor/bin/yii according to the PATH set in the container) always complains about not being able to instantiate the db class. I was able to determine that it is not loading my config/console.php file.

In order to get it working, I had to include the yii file from the basic app template in my project root, set it as executable, and restart my terminal -- so then the yii command refers to this new file.

Is this a bug? It sure seems like it is. If not, am I doing something wrong? I would prefer not to include the extra executable in my project if possible.

[schmunk42]

Can you post the commands you run? There's no yii by default on an image.

root@f557761a3c07:/app# echo $PATH
/app:/app/vendor/bin:/root/.composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
root@f557761a3c07:/app# which yii

[garrettw]

Right, but there is in /app/vendor/bin as long as composer install has run. If I have reported this to the wrong repo, do let me know what repo I should report it on.

docker-compose.yml:

version: '3'
services:
    php-apache:
        build: ./docker
        ports:
            - "80:80"
            - "443:443"
        volumes:
            - ~/.composer-docker/cache:/root/.composer/cache:cached
            - .:/app:cached
        networks:
            - default
        links:
            - 'test_mysql'

    test_mysql:
        image: mysql:5.7.24
        container_name: testmysql
        ports:
          - "6603:3306"
        environment:
          MYSQL_DATABASE: test
          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: "mypassword"
        volumes:
          - ./docker/dbdata:/var/lib/mysql
        networks:
          - default

networks:
  default:
    driver: bridge
    ipam:
       driver: default
       config:
       - subnet: 10.20.22.0/24

volumes:
    dbdata:
        driver: local

docker/Dockerfile:

FROM yiisoftware/yii2-php:7.3-apache

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# mkdir is for installing java for pdftk
RUN mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1; \
    apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y gnupg2 \
    && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash - \
    && apt-key update \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        nodejs \
        g++ \
        git \
        curl \
        imagemagick \
        libfreetype6-dev \
        libcurl3-dev \
        libicu-dev \
        libfreetype6-dev \
        libjpeg-dev \
        libjpeg62-turbo-dev \
        libmagickwand-dev \
        libpq-dev \
        libpng-dev \
        libxml2-dev \
        libzip-dev \
        zlib1g-dev \
        default-mysql-client \
        openssh-client \
        nano \
        unzip \
        xmlsec1\
        pdftk \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*

RUN npm install -g yarn \
    && yarn install

# Add configuration files
COPY 000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/
COPY ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem /etc/ssl/certs/
COPY ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/ssl/private/

# Create a symlink for apache (if `/var/www/html` is available)
RUN (rm -rf /var/www/html && mkdir /var/www/html && ln -s /app/web/ /var/www/html) || true

RUN a2enmod ssl
RUN chmod -R 777 /var/log

composer.json: (I know some deps need updating, I'm handling those separately)

{
    "name": "yiisoft/yii2-app-basic",
    "description": "Yii 2 Basic Project Template",
    "keywords": ["yii2", "framework", "basic", "project template"],
    "homepage": "http://www.yiiframework.com/",
    "type": "project",
    "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
    "support": {
        "issues": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues?state=open",
        "forum": "http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/",
        "wiki": "http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/",
        "irc": "irc://irc.freenode.net/yii",
        "source": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "stable",
    "prefer-stable": true,
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.4.0",
        "yiisoft/yii2": "~2.0.15",
        "yiisoft/yii2-jui": "~2.0.0",
        "yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap4": "~2.0.6",
        "yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer": "~2.0.0",
        "yiisoft/yii2-composer": "~2.0.4",
        "setasign/fpdi-fpdf": "1.6.1",
        "mikehaertl/php-pdftk": "0.5.0",
        "aws/aws-sdk-php": "^3.55",
        "phpseclib/phpseclib": "^2.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "yiisoft/yii2-debug": "~2.0.0",
        "yiisoft/yii2-gii": "~2.0.0",
        "yiisoft/yii2-faker": "~2.0.0",

        "codeception/base": "^2.2.3",
        "codeception/verify": "~0.3.1",
        "codeception/specify": "~0.4.3"
    },
    "config": {
        "process-timeout": 1800,
        "fxp-asset": {
            "enabled": false
        }
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "yii\\composer\\Installer::postCreateProject"
        ]
    },
    "extra": {
        "yii\\composer\\Installer::postCreateProject": {
            "setPermission": [
                {
                    "runtime": "0777",
                    "web/assets": "0777",
                    "yii": "0755"
                }
            ],
            "generateCookieValidationKey": [
                "config/web.php"
            ]
        },
        "asset-installer-paths": {
            "npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
            "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
        }
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
        }
    ]
}

[schmunk42]

Do you have a yii executable in /app?

[edit] Can you run /app/yii?

[garrettw]

@schmunk42 yes -- I just don't understand why I have to have that file instead of being able to rely on vendor/bin/yii. (What is the point of the latter if it doesn't even work?)

[schmunk42]

The yii file basically defines which configs to load for your console application.

The latter does not load any config at all (just uses defaults), or? https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/framework/yii

[garrettw]

What's the usefulness of it then, if it doesn't even load a db config?

[samdark]

It's not that useful. I guess we have it for historical reasons (I forgot to remove it after moving entry point to the application) but I might be wrong since it was about 10 years ago when I did that.

[garrettw]

@samdark Instead of removing it, why not make it more useful along the lines of the yii file included in the app template?

[samdark]

Because vendor location might get customized, it might be symlinked and it's very non-trivial to determine location of the app correctly from within vendor's yii.

[schmunk42]

You should be able to load a custom config like so:

yii help --appconfig=/app/config/main.php        

[addon] see also https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/tutorial-console#configuration