Poetry of Programming

The happiness of running the first Symfony project is very often spoiled by a message displayed on the first Symfony-based web page:

Congratulations! You have successfully created your symfony project.

Project setup successful

This project uses the symfony libraries. If you see no image in this page, you may need to configure your web server so that it gains access to the symfony_data/web/sf/ directory.

The proper configuration of the web server seems to be the most troublesome part of Symfony installation. But fortunately there are several quick ways to solve that problem. This short guide will describe three of them from the perspective of an Apache web server user. Read the rest of this entry »