Webserver Configuration

Apache

If you are using Apache you can use a .htaccess file for this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews

    RewriteEngine On
    #RewriteBase /path/to/app
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Note

If your site is not at the webroot level you will have to uncomment the RewriteBase statement and adjust the path to point to your directory, relative from the webroot.

Alternatively, if you use Apache 2.2.16 or higher, you can use the FallbackResource directive so make your .htaccess even easier:

FallbackResource /index.php

Note

If your site is not at the webroot level you will have to adjust the path to point to your directory, relative from the webroot.

nginx

If you are using nginx, configure your vhost to forward non-existent resources to index.php:

server {
    #site root is redirected to the app boot script
    location = / {
        try_files @site @site;
    }

    #all other locations try other files first and go to our front controller if none of them exists
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ @site;
    }

    #return 404 for all php files as we do have a front controller
    location ~ \.php$ {
        return 404;
    }

    location @site {
        fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/index.php;
        #uncomment when running via https
        #fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
    }
}

IIS

If you are using the Internet Information Services from Windows, you can use this sample web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.php" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Silex Front Controller" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" appendQueryString="true" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Lighttpd

If you are using lighttpd, use this sample simple-vhost as a starting point:

server.document-root = "/path/to/app"

url.rewrite-once = (
    # configure some static files
    "^/assets/.+" => "$0",
    "^/favicon\.ico$" => "$0",

    "^(/[^\?]*)(\?.*)?" => "/index.php$1$2"
)

PHP 5.4

PHP 5.4 ships with a built-in webserver for development. This server allows you to run silex without any configuration. However, in order to serve static files, you’ll have to make sure your front controller returns false in that case:

// web/index.php

$filename = __DIR__.preg_replace('#(\?.*)$#', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli-server' && is_file($filename)) {
    return false;
}

$app = require __DIR__.'/../src/app.php';
$app->run();

Assuming your front controller is at web/index.php, you can start the server from the command-line with this command:

$ php -S localhost:8080 -t web web/index.php

Now the application should be running at http://localhost:8080.

Note

This server is for development only. It is not recommended to use it in production.