The purpose of this post is to let anyone quickly find how to accomplish a configuration task, and list here all the posibilities of the config.php file and also link to pages that explain how is each thing implemented.

Everyone is welcome to add here configuration rules that haven't been specified or links to other documentation.

The configuration file:

<?php

// uncomment the following to define a path alias
// Yii::setPathOfAlias('local','path/to/local-folder');

// This is the main Web application configuration. Any writable
// CWebApplication properties can be configured here.
return array(
	
	// the base path to the protected folder
	// access it using Yii::app()->basePath
	'basePath'=>dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..',
	
	// name of application
	// access it using Yii::app()->name
	'name'=>'My website',
	
	// default controller that will be executed when running the application
	'defaultController'=>'site', 
	
	// source language of the application
	'language'=>'es',
	
	// charset to use
	'charset'=>'utf-8',

	// preloading application components
	'preload'=>array('log'),

	// autoloading classes
	'import'=>array(
		'application.models.*',
		'application.components.*',
	),

	// application-level parameters that can be accessed
	// using Yii::app()->params['paramName']
	'params'=>array(
		'adminEmail'=>'info@example.com',
	),
	
	// Note: you can also separate your configuration file into
	// more files, for example: db.php, params.php and so on.
	// You can do it like this example:
	// 'params'=>require(dirname(__FILE__).'/params.php'),
	// and inside the params.php you will return the array:
	// return array('adminEmail'=>'info@example.com');

	// configuration of application components
	'components'=>array(
	
		// assets, see http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/CAssetManager
		'assetManager'=>array(
			// change the path on disk
			'basePath'=>dirname(__FILE__).'/../../assets/',
			// change the url
			'baseUrl'=>'/web/assets/'
		),
		
		// logging
		'log'=>array(
			// class of logger
			'class'=>'CLogRouter', 
			// where to store logs?
			'routes'=>array( 
				array(
					// store on file, other options are available
					'class'=>'CFileLogRoute', 
					// what to store on file? error and warning, info and trace can be added here
					'levels'=>'error, warning', 
				),
			),
		),
		
		// user
		'user'=>array(
			// enable cookie-based authentication
			'allowAutoLogin'=>true,
			// set the url where user must be redirected if authentication needed
			// use null to force 403 HTTP error 
			'loginUrl'=>null,
			// set here the name of a class
			// that extends CWebUser and it is stored in
			// protected/components/<classname>
			// see: http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/5610-extend-cwebuser/
			'class' => 'WebUser',
		),
		
		// database
		'db'=>array(
			// using mysql
			'connectionString'=>'mysql:host=example.com;dbname=my_db',
			'username'=>'my_user',
			'password'=>'my_password',
			// set the charset of the connection
			'charset'=>'utf8',
			// using sqlite
			// 'connectionString'=>'sqlite:'.dirname(__FILE__).'/../data/blog.db',
		),
		
		// url 
		'urlManager'=>array(
			// the URL format. It must be either 'path' or 'get'.
			// path: index.php/controller/action/attribute/value
			// get: index.php?r=controller/action&attribute=value
			'urlFormat'=>'path',
			// show www.example.com/index.php/controller/action 
			// or just www.example.com/controller/action
			'showScriptName' => true,
			// rules to redirect a specific url to the controller you want
			// see: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/topics.url
			'rules'=>array(
				// www.example.com/home instead of www.example.com/site/index
				'home'=>'site/index',
				'post/<id:\d+>'=>'post/show',
			),
		),
	),
);
?>