Improved Yii 2 Advanced Project Template is an expented version of Yii 2 Advanced Project Template.

I have:

• added chmod to the init for all dirs Gii can write in
• added an staging environment to the init
• separeted db configurations from main-local.php
• added *-local.php to all config/.gitignore files
• added pretty URLs to backend and frontend configs
• added .htaccess to all web/.gitignore files (incase you need them)

If you do not have Composer, follow the instructions in the Installing Yii section of the definitive guide to install it.

With Composer installed, you can then install the application using the following commands:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.0.3"
composer create-project --prefer-dist mghollander/yii2-app-advanced-improved yii-application

After installing the application you need to add your db config to common/config/db-local.php

<?php
return [
    'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
    'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2-advanced',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'charset' => 'utf8',
];

Now follow the Yii 2 Advanced Project Template Application preparation steps