The preferred way to test 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 usually want to use a full-featured web server. This articles

describes several ways to use Symfony with Apache2 or Nginx. Both are very

popular full-featured web servers.

When using Apache2, you have two possibilities to 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, this directory is in ``/var/www/project/web/``.

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

.. _web-server-apache-fpm:

.. _web-server-nginx: