The preferred way to develop your Symfony2 application is to use

:doc:`PHP's internal web server </cookbook/web_server/built_in>`. However,

when using an older PHP version or when running the application in the production

environment, you'll need to use a fully-featured web server. This article

describes several ways to use Symfony with Apache2 or Nginx.

When using Apache2, you can configure PHP as an

:ref:`Apache module <web-server-apache-mod-php>` or with FastCGI using

:ref:`PHP FPM <web-server-apache-fpm>`. FastCGI also is the preferred way

to use PHP :ref:`with Nginx <web-server-nginx>`.

.. sidebar:: The Web Directory

The web directory is the home of all of your application's public and

static files, including images, stylesheets and JavaScript files. It is

also where the front controllers live. For more details, see the :ref:`the-web-directory`.

The web directory services as the document root when configuring your

web server. In the examples below, the ``web/`` directory will be the

document root. This directory is ``/var/www/project/web/``.

.. _web-server-apache-mod-php:

.. _web-server-apache-fpm:

.. _web-server-nginx: