FrankenPHP: Modern App Server for PHP

FrankenPHP is a modern application server for PHP built on top of the Caddy web server.

FrankenPHP gives superpowers to your PHP apps thanks to its stunning features: Early Hints, worker mode, real-time capabilities, automatic HTTPS, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 support...

FrankenPHP works with any PHP app and makes your Laravel and Symfony projects faster than ever thanks to their official integrations with the worker mode.

FrankenPHP can also be used as a standalone Go library to embed PHP in any app using net/http.

Learn more on frankenphp.dev and in this slide deck:

Getting Started

Standalone Binary

We provide static FrankenPHP binaries for Linux and macOS containing PHP 8.4 and most popular PHP extensions.

On Windows, use WSL to run FrankenPHP.

Download FrankenPHP or copy this line into your terminal to automatically install the version appropriate for your platform:

curl https://frankenphp.dev/install.sh | sh
mv frankenphp /usr/local/bin/

To serve the content of the current directory, run:

frankenphp php-server

You can also run command-line scripts with:

frankenphp php-cli /path/to/your/script.php

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In production, prefer using the Docker images, the Brew package or compiling FrankenPHP from sources. The standalone binary is provided for development and testing purposes.

Docker

Alternatively, Docker images are available:

docker run -v .:/app/public \
    -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp \
    dunglas/frankenphp

Go to https://localhost, and enjoy!

Tip

Do not attempt to use https://127.0.0.1. Use https://localhost and accept the self-signed certificate. Use the SERVER_NAME environment variable to change the domain to use.

Homebrew

FrankenPHP is also available as a Homebrew package for macOS and Linux.

To install it:

brew install dunglas/frankenphp/frankenphp

To serve the content of the current directory, run:

frankenphp php-server

Docs

• Classic mode
• Worker mode
• Early Hints support (103 HTTP status code)
• Real-time
• Configuration
• Docker images
• Deploy in production
• Performance optimization
• Create standalone, self-executable PHP apps
• Create static binaries
• Compile from sources
• Monitoring FrankenPHP
• Laravel integration
• Known issues
• Demo app (Symfony) and benchmarks
• Go library documentation
• Contributing and debugging

Examples and Skeletons

• Symfony
• API Platform
• Laravel
• Sulu
• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla
• TYPO3
• Magento2