Pimcore Project Skeleton

This skeleton should be used by experienced Pimcore developers for starting a new project from the ground up. If you are new to Pimcore, it's better to start with our demo package, listed below 😉

Getting started

COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer create-project pimcore/skeleton my-project
cd ./my-project
./vendor/bin/pimcore-install

• Point your virtual host to my-project/public
• [Only for Apache] Create my-project/public/.htaccess according to https://pimcore.com/docs/platform/Pimcore/Installation_and_Upgrade/System_Setup_and_Hosting/Apache_Configuration/
• Open https://your-host/admin in your browser
• Done! 😎

Docker

You can also use Docker to set up a new Pimcore Installation. You don't need to have a PHP environment with composer installed.

Prerequisites

• Your user must be allowed to run docker commands (directly or via sudo).
• You must have docker compose installed.
• Your user must be allowed to change file permissions (directly or via sudo).

Follow these steps

1. Initialize the skeleton project using the pimcore/pimcore image docker run -u `id -u`:`id -g` --rm -v `pwd`:/var/www/html pimcore/pimcore:php8.3-latest composer create-project pimcore/skeleton my-project

2. Go to your new project cd my-project/

3. Part of the new project is a docker compose file

   • Run sed -i "s|#user: '1000:1000'|user: '$(id -u):$(id -g)'|g" docker-compose.yaml to set the correct user id and group id.
   • Start the needed services with docker compose up -d

4. Install pimcore and initialize the DB docker compose exec php vendor/bin/pimcore-install

   • When asked for admin user and password: Choose freely
   • This can take a while, up to 20 minutes
   • If you select to install the SimpleBackendSearchBundle please make sure to add the pimcore_search_backend_message to your .docker/supervisord.conf file inside value for 'command' like pimcore_maintenance already is.

5. Run codeception tests:

   • docker compose run --user=root --rm test-php chown -R $(id -u):$(id -g) var/ public/var/
   • docker compose run --rm test-php vendor/bin/pimcore-install -n
   • docker compose run --rm test-php vendor/bin/codecept run -vv

6. ✔️ DONE - You can now visit your pimcore instance:

   • The frontend: http://localhost
   • The admin interface, using the credentials you have chosen above: http://localhost/admin

Pimcore Platform Version

By default, Pimcore Platform Version is added as a dependency which ensures installation of compatible and in combination with each other tested versions of additional Pimcore modules. More information about the Platform Version can be found in the Platform Version docs.

It might be necessary to update a specific Pimcore module to a version that is not included in the Platform Version. In that case, you need to remove the platform-version dependency from your composer.json and update the module to the desired version. Be aware that this might lead to a theoretically compatible but untested combination of Pimcore modules.

Other demo/skeleton packages

• Pimcore Basic Demo