Yii - How to cause Yii to republish to the assets folder

Question

Yii question.

On my development machine, the required JQuery files for the application were present in a subfolder under the assets folder. However, when I copied the application to my test server, JQuery files were missing in the folder yii looked for them. I kept getting errors such as '../assets/db0e5a94/jquery.ba-bbq.js' 404 not found, etc.

I emptied the assets folder, and now all my CSS files etc. are reported missing. Is there any way I can cause Yii to republish to the assets folder?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Simply delete all sub-directories in the assets folder and clear your browser cache. Do not delete the assets directory or you will have to set the write permissions again.

Answer 2

in components/Controller.php add the following function:

protected function beforeAction($action){
    if(defined('YII_DEBUG') && YII_DEBUG){
        Yii::app()->assetManager->forceCopy = true;
    }
    return parent::beforeAction($action);
}