How to customize Front-end as a freelancer

Hello, I am a freelancer and has been hired to customize the front end of the orocommerce platform, but I don’t know how to access the source code of the client platform, I literally don’t know where to begin

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[Andrey YatsenkoModerator]

First of all, you need to create the custom bundle that will contain the new theme.
As an example you can use CustomThemeBundle from the core.
Start from an instruction how to create a bundle with the Symfony framework.

All the links about how to work on custom layout theme can be found at the README.md

Best regards.

[nellybaz10Participant]

Thanks a lot for responding, am so stuck.
Is it the client that should give me access to this file ? DemoBundle/Resources/views/layouts/first_theme/theme.yml.
If not, how do I access the folders.
Thanks

[Andrey YatsenkoModerator]

I’d recommend clarifying with the customer is it a custom application or not, and if it is custom – you need an access to all the code and the database.

In case it’s a standard application – you can just install it from scratch, here is an install guide
https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/doc/1.6/install-upgrade

Anyway, you need to know what version and kind of application is used, as they are not the same and there are a lot of changes between 2.6 and 3.0 for example.

The simplest installation will be with the Vagrant
https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/doc/1.6/install-upgrade/one-step-automated-installation/vagrant#vagrant-installation

[omusiienkoParticipant]

Please take a look at the Frontend developer guide for the documentation:
https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/forums/topic/customizing-the-frontend

And Style Book for Front End developers:
https://demo.orocommerce.com/demo/login?user_id=1&redirect=oro_stylebook

[nellybaz10Participant]

Thanks a lot, Andrey for your assistance.
I have finished installing with vagrant. The Vbox opened asking for localhost login and password. What are the default login details?
Thanks

[nellybaz10Participant]

I am able to get past that, I have vagrant and VM running but now I need to open the application using the URL http://localhost:8000, but not working.
Please help.

[mmiasnikovParticipant]

Hello, nellybaz10.

What, exactly, isn’t working? What do you get when you’re trying to follow http://localhost:8000/ in your browser?

[nellybaz10Participant]

It is not opening the application at all with the url http://localhost:8000/. My VM is running, don’t know what am missing out

[mmiasnikovParticipant]

Could you please provide here a precise sequence of performed installation steps? What did you do, exactly, to get the installed application?

[nellybaz10Participant]

I cloned the repo with git clone -b 1.6.14 https://github.com/oroinc/orocommerce-application.git oroapp

I downloaded and installed vagrant, VirtualBox, and composer
And then I ran the vagrant up command in the oroapp folder, which started up the terminal in the VM.

But then when I try opening the application with localhost:8000 on my host machine, nothing comes up

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by  nellybaz10.

[mmiasnikovParticipant]

Ok, thank you.

Please, try the following:

1) Try to load the page http://localhost:8000/app_dev.php, several times or until you get some answer, with 3 minutes pauses (because of possible cache recreation process).

2) If you won’t get any result from http://localhost:8000/app_dev.php page, please, provide the content of your application installation log file:

a) login to VM (type “vagrant ssh” in the console)

b) see the content of the /usr/share/nginx/html/oroapp/var/logs/oro_install.log file (for example with “cat /usr/share/nginx/html/oroapp/var/logs/oro_install.log” command)

c) provide the last 100 lines of this log here.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by  mmiasnikov.

[nellybaz10Participant]

Thanks mmiasnikov,
The page http://localhost:8000/app_dev.php is working but now I get You are not allowed to access this file. Check app_dev.php for more information.

Is there any authorization settings I should make?

[mmiasnikovParticipant]

Hello, nellybaz10,

No, you shouldn’t. Let’s try the same with a regular production URL http://localhost:8000/ – try to reload it several times with 3 minutes pauses. If you won’t get any response – please, take a look into

• /var/log/nginx/localhost_error.log
• /usr/share/nginx/html/oroapp/app/logs/prod.log

files on the VM file system – whether they have information about some errors?

[nellybaz10Participant]

Quick Question:
Do I have to run variant provision everytime I need to start the app?

[mmiasnikovParticipant]

No. If you didn’t run “vagrant destroy” command – you shouldn’t run the provisioning process again – please see https://www.vagrantup.com/intro/getting-started/teardown.html.

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