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 Symfony and Laravel projects faster than ever thanks to the provided integration 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:
docker run -v $PWD:/app/public \
-p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
dunglas/frankenphp
Go to https://localhost
, and enjoy!
Tip
Do not attempt to use https://127.0.0.1
. Use localhost
and accept the self-signed certificate. Caddy has an automatic TLS handling that auto-trusts some local-based hostnames like localhost
, but it does not apply to IP addresses. More details on Caddy's "automatic https" docs.
If you prefer not to use Docker, we provide standalone FrankenPHP binaries for Linux and macOS containing PHP 8.3 and most popular PHP extensions: Download FrankenPHP
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