How to deploy a Yii application to a production server?

@rollin 

Here are the steps to deploy a Yii application to a production server:

1. Set up a production server with the necessary software packages, such as PHP, web server (Apache or Nginx), MySQL or another database server, and Git.
2. Clone the Yii application repository from the Git repository.
3. Create a new database for the application on the production server and import the database schema from the development environment.
4. Configure the application environment and database connection settings in the Yii application configuration file.
5. Make sure that the production server has the necessary PHP extensions and libraries for the Yii application.
6. Use Composer to install the required packages and dependencies for the Yii application.
7. Compile and minify the CSS and JavaScript assets using Yii’s Asset Bundle feature.
8. Set up the web server configuration to serve the Yii application, such as setting up the document root and the URL rewriting rules.
9. Set up the file permissions and ownership for the Yii application directories and files.
10. Test the Yii application on the production server to make sure it is running without errors.