Ok I'll quote what the current version says toward the end the Static Pages section( page 208 in my PDF, page 122 in my nook: "“You can also create a nested directory structure. For example, say you wanted to have a series of static files about the company, stored within the views/site/pages/company directory. To refer to those files, just prepend the value of $_GET['view'] with "company/": /site/page/view/company/board would display the protected/views/site/pages/company/board.php page.”. Since the yii 2 docs say they've eliminated the 'protected' directory, I'm confused why it's referenced here. Just wanted to bring attention to it.