One of the most widely used PHP frameworks, Symfony, makes it simple and quick to create your own applications. With a large developer community and a variety of decoupled and reusable components, Symfony has drawn a lot of interest from the open-source community.

I’ll walk you through the process of installing and configuring Symfony 3.0.0 for AKLWEB HOST LEMP VPS application development in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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• Install a Linux server instance that has PHP upgraded to at least PHP 5.4. The application for Vultr LEMP is eligible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Use sudo rights to log in as a non-root user.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  Step 1: Download the Symfony installer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

  The officially recommended method to install Symfony is to use the Symfony installer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Log in from an SSH terminal, input:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  sudo curl -LsS http:\/\/symfony.com\/installer -o \/usr\/local\/bin\/symfony\nsudo chmod a+x \/usr\/local\/bin\/symfony<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  Now you can use the symfony<\/code> command from your shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  Step 2: Create the Symfony application<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  Create a new application with Symfony:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  symfony new my_project<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  This command will create a directory called my_project<\/code> in your home directory to host all of your application files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  If you want to specify the version of Symfony, append the version number to the command mentioned above, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  symfony new my_project 2.6\nsymfony new my_project 2.6.5\nsymfony new my_project 2.7.0-RC1\nsymfony new my_project lts<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  Step 3: Run and verify the Symfony application<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  Execute the following commands to start the Symfony application:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  cd my_project\/\nphp bin\/console server:run<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  If the operation was successful, you will see the prompt [OK] Server running on http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8000<\/code> appear on your screen. You can verify the result by accessing the URL http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8000\/<\/code> from a web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  Keep the command running in the current SSH terminal. Open another SSH terminal and download a text browser called Lynx:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  sudo yum install -y lynx<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  Visit http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8000\/<\/code> from Lynx:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  lynx http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8000\/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  You will see the welcome page of Symfony: “Welcome to Symfony 3.0.0”. Then press Shift + Q<\/strong> to quit Lynx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  If by any chance you see a blank page or an error page instead of the welcome page, you can try to fix the problem by reconfiguring the permissions on the\u00a0~\/my_project\/var\/cache<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0~\/my_project\/var\/logs<\/code>\u00a0directories. Visit the\u00a0Symfony website<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  Step 4: Check Symfony application configuration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  You can also use a server configuration tester to check if your environment is ready for using Symfony. Access the following URL while your Symfony application is running:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  lynx http:\/\/localhost:8000\/config.php<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  In the Vultr LNMP environment, the server configuration tester will recommend us to install and enable the intl extension (used for validators) for a better Symfony experience. Here is the solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  Press the down arrow once, then press Shift + Q<\/strong> to quit the Lynx browser.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  Check the version of PHP on the server: php -v<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  Query and install the intl extension of the same version (my server was running PHP 5.5): yum list php*intl sudo yum install php55u-intl.x86_64<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  Reboot the system: sudo reboot<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  Log in and check the Symfony application configuration again, you will find that the problem has been solved (“All checks passed successfully.”).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
  Congratulations! You have setup a Symfony application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[242,587],"manual_kb_tag":[642,644,643,646,647,645,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/3832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/3832\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}