Running your Symfony Application

On production, you should use a web server like Nginx or Apache

(see:doc:`configuring a web server to run Symfony</setup/web_server_configuration>`).

But for development, it's convenient to use the:doc:`Symfony Local Web Server<setup/symfony_server>`.

On production, you should use a web server like Nginx or Apache (see

:doc:`configuring a web server to run Symfony</setup/web_server_configuration>`).

But for development, it's more convenient to use the

:doc:`Symfony Local Web Server<setup/symfony_server>`.

..note::

This local server provides support for HTTP/2, TLS/SSL, automatic generation of

security certificates and many other features. It works with any PHP application,

not only Symfony projects, so it's a very useful development tool.

If you want to use a virtual machine (VM) with Vagrant, check out

:doc:`Homestead</setup/homestead>`.

Move into your new project and start the server:

Once installed, move into your new project and start the local web server:

..code-block::terminal

Open your browser and navigate to ``http://localhost:8000/``. If everything is working,

you'll see a welcome page. Later, when you are finished working, stop the server

by pressing ``Ctrl+C`` from your terminal.

Open your browser and navigate to ``http://localhost:8000/``. If everything is

working,you'll see a welcome page. Later, when you are finished working, stop

the serverby pressing ``Ctrl+C`` from your terminal.

..tip::

If you're having any problems running Symfony, your system may be missing

some technical requirements. Use the:doc:`Symfony Requirements Checker</reference/requirements>`

tool to make sure your system is set up.

..note::

If you want to use a virtual machine (VM) with Vagrant, check out

:doc:`Homestead</setup/homestead>`.

..tip::

If you're using a VM, you may need to tell the server to bind to all IP addresses: