Installation

Installing Lion

To install lion framework, just place the "lion" directory wherever you want on your HD.
It's recomended to place lion in a location not accessible by browsers, i.e., on /usr/local/lion.

Sorry, no more steps :)

System Requirements

PHP

Lion frameworks requires PHP 5.1.6 (which is the one used for his development) or greater.
However, it's recomended to use PHP 5.2.1 or greater since it includes some native modules which accelerate lion execution.

Lion does not work propertly if php_domxml extension is enabled, because it uses the wrong classes from this extension. So, try to disable it in your php.ini

Url rewrite engine

Lion needs the Module Rewrite (Apache's mod_rewrite or equivalent) enabled in order to route all the requests to index.php.

In the other hand, if you are ussing Apache, check that you have the AllowOverwrite directive enabled. See the Troubleshooting section for more information about common troubles intalling lion.

Bootstrap an empty project

At this point, we may want to create a new project.
To make it happens, lion offers a bootstrap capability that automates the creation of new projects from the scratch.

See the Bootstrapping a new project section for more information about bootstrapping a new project