About Feed Cloud

Feed Cloud Deployment

After downloading Yii version 1.1.16 (December 21, 2014) it was unzipped where the folder and its contents were uploaded to the OS webserver at Teesside University which is a secure version of HTTP, it has SSL installed (secure socket layer) meaning all data transfers are encrypted. The version of Yii installed requires at least version 5.1 of PHP to run correctly, it has also been tested on APACHE HTTP webserver on both Linux and windows.

The approach taken in the deployment of this development was to use a sFTP client, WINSCP was used, as it is the easiest method, the alternative being the use of a console to use command prompt. Once the Yii folder was uploaded and in place on the root of the server, (Software, 2016) which contained 3 folders (demos, requirements, and framework) and some instructions in plain text files, the demos and requirements folders needed to be placed into a Web-accessible directory, which was called webApp so that they could be accessed in the browser.