Yii2 render frontend view from backend controller

Question

My task is simple. I have to render frontend view from backend controller. What i've done so far is to create urlManagerFrontendView path in my main.php :

'urlManagerFrontendView' => [
    'class' => 'yii\web\urlManager',
    'baseUrl' => $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/frontend/view/',
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
],

This is how i am trying to render it(from the backend):

return $this->render(''.Yii::$app->urlManagerFrontendView->baseUrl.'page/product', [
            'model' => $product,
            'product_rel' => $product_rel,
            'thispage' => $thispage,
        ]);

But what i get is an error:

The view file does not exist: /home/projects/tashev-online/htdocs/backend/views/home/projects/tashev-online/htdocs/frontend/viewpage/product.php

Obviously i didn't create it right :) So can you guys help my with my path? What is the right way to reach the frontend? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You don't have to do anything with UrlManager in this case. Simply call the view using relative path (like this or similar):

return $this->render('../../../frontend/views/page/product', ...