yii2: The file or directory to be published does not exist: .../backend/vendor/bower/bootstrap/dist

After composer update i have this problem with advanced template: [error][yii\base\InvalidParamException] exception ‘yii\base\InvalidParamException’ with message ‘The file or directory to be published does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/*********/httpdocs/backend/vendor/bower/bootstrap/dist’

My composer.json:

{
  "name": "yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced",
  "description": "Yii 2 Advanced Application Template",
  "keywords": [
    "yii2",
    "framework",
    "advanced",
    "application template"
  ],
  "homepage": "http://www.yiiframework.com/",
  "type": "project",
  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
  "support": {
    "issues": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues?state=open",
    "forum": "http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/",
    "wiki": "http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/",
    "irc": "irc://irc.freenode.net/yii",
    "source": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2"
  },
  "minimum-stability": "stable",
  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.4.0",
    "yiisoft/yii2": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-icons": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-datecontrol": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-widget-select2": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-widget-fileinput": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-editable": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-grid": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-mpdf": "*",
    "kartik-v/yii2-money": "*",
    "wbraganca/yii2-dynamicform": "*",
    "philippfrenzel/yii2fullcalendar":"*",
    "uran1980/yii2-scroll-to-top": "*",
    "2amigos/yii2-ckeditor-widget" : "*",
    "alexgx/yii2-phpexcel": "dev-master",
    "bedezign/yii2-audit": "dev-master",
    "ercling/yii2-pace": "dev-master",
    "miloschuman/yii2-highcharts-widget": "dev-master"
  },
  "require-dev": {
    "yiisoft/yii2-codeception": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-debug": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-gii": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-faker": "*"
  },
  "config": {
    "process-timeout": 1800
  },
  "extra": {
    "asset-installer-paths": {
      "npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
      "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
    }
  }
}

I try:

delete vendor folder;
delete composer.lock
composer self-update
composer global require “fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.1.1”
composer global show -i

fxp/composer-asset-plugin v1.1.1 NPM/Bower Dependency Manager for Composer

composer global update
composer global clear-cache
composer update

Any ideas?

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 24 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

rm -Rf vendor/
rm -f composer.lock
composer update

Fixed this issue for me.

bajabob on Oct 28, 2016

Looks like this is happening due to the following line: 'vendorPath' => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/vendor',

missing from the generated common main.php config file. No amount of re-updating & cache clearing will bring it back. Seems like it only gets added when calling create-project.

vercotux on Aug 14, 2017

None of the mentioned solutions work. You can wipe vendor, clear composer cache, remove the lock file, reinstall composer, wipe the global .composer folder, walk on your hands while juggling watermelons… The project wants the vendor folder to be inside backend or frontend no matter what you do.

What is causing this?

vercotux on Aug 14, 2017

When you’re running install or update w/o prior installing fxp it writes to .lock, vendor and cache. So installing fxp afterwards doesn’t help. You need to clean all these. We’re aware that it’s a huge mess and for 2.1 we plan to do it w/o any global plugins required. For 2.0 it will stay as is…

samdark on Jan 11, 2016