Question

I have a YII webapp project which I have got using svn checkout repo. When I try to run this webapp on my NGINX server, it (project1) gives me an error –

Application runtime path "~/workspace/project1/protected/runtime" is not valid. Please make sure it is a directory writable by the Web server process.

But when I create some other YII project (project2) like –

yiic webapp ~/workspace/project2
#and then the MVC procedure
./protected/yiic shell
>>model User users
>>crud User

I can run my webapp in my browser.

Is it because the project1 is not configured? What do I have to do the configuration manually to my working copy?

Answer 1

You have to give write access to the runtime folder, for the nginx user.

Yii uses this folder for storing temporary files during runtime, from the guide:

WebRoot/protected/runtime: this directory holds private temporary files generated during runtime of the application. This directory must be writable by Web server process.

So, yii does this check, in CApplication’s setRuntimePath() :

if(($runtimePath=realpath($path))===false || !is_dir($runtimePath) || !is_writable($runtimePath))