The preferred way to test your Symfony2 application is to use PHP's internal

web server. 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: