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

On Windows, use WSL to run FrankenPHP.

Install Script

You can copy this line into your terminal to automatically install an appropriate version for your platform:

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

Standalone Binary

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

Download FrankenPHP

rpm Packages

Our maintainers offer rpm packages for all systems using dnf. To install, run:

sudo dnf install https://rpm.henderkes.com/static-php-1-0.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf module enable php-zts:static-8.4 # 8.2-8.5 available
sudo dnf install frankenphp
# to install extensions:
sudo dnf install php-zts-xdebug
# if an extension is not available by default, install it with pie
sudo dnf install php-zts-devel
sudo pie install asgrim/example-pie-extension --with-php-config=php-config-zts

deb Packages

Our maintainers offer deb packages for all systems using apt. To install, run:

sudo curl -fsSL https://key.henderkes.com/static-php.gpg -o /usr/share/keyrings/static-php.gpg && \
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/static-php.gpg] https://deb.henderkes.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/static-php.list && \
sudo apt update
sudo apt install frankenphp
# to install extensions:
sudo apt install php-zts-xdebug
# if an extension is not available by default, install it with pie
sudo apt install php-zts-devel
sudo pie install asgrim/example-pie-extension --with-php-config=php-config-zts

Usage

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

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

If you need extensions, you will have to install them with pie.

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.

Docs

• Classic mode
• Worker mode
• Early Hints support (103 HTTP status code)
• Real-time
• Efficiently Serving Large Static Files
• Configuration
• Writing PHP Extensions in Go
• 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