Configuring Symfony 2 with a Cpanel hosted site.

This post by at weblincs is useful - symfony-framework-cPanel-shared-hosting, however it is for Symfony 1.x.
As it states is best to use symbolic links to avoid any custom httpd config file configuration causing problems with Cpanel.
The Symfony 2 configuration is even simpler (I believe this is related to the configuration from Symfony v1 to v2) I did the following:

1. Upload your symfony application.
2. Extract it into a new folder -eg  /home/user/symfony_site, on a standared cPanel site this will be the same level as the public_html folder.
3. Remove or rename the public_html folder.
   mv public_html public_html_original
4. Create a new symbolic link linking public_html to the symfony web folder:
   ln -s symfony_site/web public_html
5. Check the folder permissions - apache will warn in the log file if there is group write permission:
   chmod g-w symfony_site/web
   chmod g-w public_html
6. Restart Apache (see reference at etwiki.cpanel.net):
   /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv  httpd 
7. check the permissions of app/cache and app/logs, clear the symfony cache.

One tip - if not using a source code control, this query will list modified files since a timestamp file on the top directory.


find . -newer LAST_UPLOAD -type f -o -path ./app/cache -prune -type f