Local Web Server Reloaded for Symfony Apps

December 10, 2018 • Published by Javier Eguiluz

Update: you can now read the official documentation for the Symfony local web server.

The new Symfony binary introduced as part of SymfonyCloud will be a key piece of the Symfony developer experience. During his SymfonyCon Lisbon 2018 keynote, Fabien unveiled more of its amazing new features.

Symfony's binary provides a local web server that supports HTTP/2, uses PHP-FPM when possible and generates TLS certificates for local apps automatically. The new server supports multiple PHP versions, different PHP config per directory, aggregates all logs for easy debugging, allows to configure local domain names, etc.

Best of all is that it works on Linux, macOS and Windows, so you can download the Symfony binary and start using it right away. If you find any error, please create an issue on the symfony/cli repo.

Check out Fabien's presentation to know all the details:

Stay tuned for more feature announcements and register for early access on SymfonyCloud.

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Comments

Romain Gautier Certified said on Dec 10, 2018 at 13:04

Great job 👍
I would love to see a docker integration

Christian Stoller Certified said on Dec 10, 2018 at 13:38

Is the local webserver open source and where can I find the sources?

Javier Eguiluz Certified said on Dec 10, 2018 at 13:41

@Christian I'm afraid it's not open sourced. My understanding is that there are no plans to open source it.

Titouan Galopin Certified said on Dec 10, 2018 at 13:41

@Christian It is not open-source.

Christian Stoller Certified said on Dec 10, 2018 at 13:48

Okay, this is disqualifier for me :-(
But thanks for you response.

Ramon Rainer said on Dec 10, 2018 at 13:55

Thank you, works great :)
Is there any way to add the PHP binaries installed by MAMP to the list of available binaries?
I'm looking for a way to use PHP 7.0 as we still have some projects running on it. I can't install it using homebrew as it was removed from their repo a few days ago.

Benjamin said on Dec 10, 2018 at 14:02

I'm currently playing around with it on Windows 10. The local webserver works fine and the speed seems to be the same as bin/console server:run (which I expected). Having the benefit to use it on all our projects seems great.

I stumbled accross two problems so far:
1.) "symfony local:server:ca:install" didn't work for Firefox (closed the browser before running the command), after adding the cert by myself everything worked fine. It worked in Chrome / Edge without any issues.
2.) How do I add a new PHP Version? "symfony local:php:list" only lists one version (I have two running, 7.2 (was installed via xampp) + 7.3 (downloaded the zip from php.net)). I edited the file .symfony/php_versions.json but it updates everytime I run the symfony command

Olivier FLAMENT said on Dec 10, 2018 at 14:04

Are there some benchmarks with other development solutions (MAMP, WAMP ...) ?

Javier Eguiluz Certified said on Dec 10, 2018 at 14:10

@Ramon @Benjamin I've notified internally about your issues. If you have other issues, please create new issues in this public repository: https://github.com/symfonycorp/symfony-cli-issues Thanks!

Massimo Chiarillo said on Dec 10, 2018 at 14:46

#10

Awesome :)

Zeljko Mitic said on Dec 10, 2018 at 15:31

#11

Will it be possible that in future, it could run same as php-pm? I can't install it anymore but when I did use it, it was pretty amazing experience.

It does require immutable services but I don't think it is a big problem.

Franz Wilding said on Dec 11, 2018 at 08:19

#12

Really nice!

It even works with other php projects (e.g. Drupal 8) out of the box!

Krzysztof Born said on Dec 11, 2018 at 12:15

#13

How do I add a new PHP Version? To the list of local:php:list ?