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Setting Up a Local Evolution CMS 2.0 Development Environment
A minimal setup note from the early Evolution 2 period that preserves the exact create-project and CLI install flow used to get a local environment running quickly.
This early Evolution 2 note captured a direct and reproducible local setup flow for getting a development instance running without relying on a manual browser installer.
The essential workflow used Composer to create the project and then completed installation through the command line.
composer create-project evolutioncms/evolution:2.0.x-dev .
php install/cli-install.php --database_server=localhost --database=DB --database_user=USER --database_password=PASS --table_prefix=evo_ --cmsadmin=admin --cmsadminemail=email@gmail.com --cmspassword=123456 --language=en --mode=new --installData=n --removeInstall=yWhy this still matters
- It documents the move toward a more developer-friendly local workflow.
- It shows how Evolution could be installed repeatably from the terminal.
- It gives teams a baseline for local onboarding and disposable test environments.
Even though later setup flows evolved further, this is still a useful historical guide because it marks the moment Evolution installation started feeling much closer to a modern Composer-based development workflow.
Changing the Default Language Context in a Babel-Based Site
A multilingual note on changing the default language in a Babel-style setup without rebuilding the entire site structure.
Using Pseudo-Pages for Resource Subviews in Evolution CMS
How to expose subviews such as /reviews under a resource URL without creating a separate child resource for every page.