Yii2 fresh install: vendor/bower/jquery/dist path is wrong

Question

I just installed yii2 (advanced) using composer. I've setup nginx, etc.

But it doesn't work:

Invalid Parameter – yii\base\InvalidParamException

The file or directory to be published does not exist: /srv/www/site/vendor/bower/jquery/dist

In the folder 'vendor/bower' there is the only subfolder 'bower-assets' with 'jquery', etc in it. But no jquery in vendor/bower.

How to solve this issue?

Solution 1

Please, refer the installation guide. It seems that you are missing asset plugin:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.2.0"

Solution 2

Make sure you have executed this command:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.2.0"

Also, check your composer.json for these followings:

Deprecated, but default option from Yii2:

"extra": {
    "asset-installer-paths": {
        "npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
        "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
    }
},

New option

"config": {
    "fxp-asset": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
            "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
        },
    }
},

Then run either composer update if you already have a composer.lock file, or composer install if you don't have composer.lock file yet.

Solution 3

I was facing same issue,
this is how I fixed it-

• go to vender .

  $ cd projectFile/vendor/
  

• Rename bower-asset with bower

  $ mv bower-asset/ bower
  

• Restart mamp/xamp

That fixed the issue and http://localhost:8888/ is working well.

Solution 4

Check your composer.json file in the root of your project. You should have a section that look slike this;

    "asset-installer-paths": {
        "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower-assets"
    }

This tells composer where to locate the bower files library. You may need to run composer update afterwards to get hte locations updated.

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Comments

[josliber]

Please don't post identical answers to multiple questions. Post one good answer, then vote/flag to close the other questions as duplicates. If the question is not a duplicate, tailor your answers to the question.

[PLM57]

This is totally the wrong way, sorry. You hereby detach your assets from being updated. The same folder will be created again and be update...but sadly not used ;)!

[contemplator]

This solution worked for me, after I edited out the last s. It should be "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower-asset"

[Joe Miller]

@contemplator it doesn't actually matter what name the asset folder has, as long as a folder with that name actually exists. On your local machine, the folder is bower-asset. On mine it's bower-assets. The name is irrelevant, as long as the entry in the composer file points to the correct place

[Tom]

It seems from my tests that this package does indeed need to be global. I tried it included only in my yii project and had no luck.

[cha]

Wrong way to do. It will be updated again when you do 'composer update'

[cha]

Wrong way to do. It will be updated again when you do 'composer update'