# How to Install Symfony Framework on Fedora

> URL: https://www.atlantic.net/dedicated-server-hosting/how-to-install-symfony-framework-on-fedora/ | Published: 2023-09-14 | Updated: 2025-04-22 | Author: Hitesh Jethva

Symfony is a free and open-source PHP web application framework for building web applications, APIs, microservices, and web services. It provides tools and features for building scalable PHP web applications with a robust caching system. It has comprehensive documentation and an active community, making it an excellent resource for [Symfony developers](https://www.toptal.com/symfony) looking to create high-quality PHP web applications.

This post will show you how to install the Symfony framework on Fedora Linux.

## Step 1 – Install the LAMP Server

Symfony is based on PHP, so you will need to install the LAMP server on your server.

First, install the Apache and MariaDB server using the following command.

```
dnf install httpd mariadb-server -y
```

Next, add the PHP Remi repo to get the latest PHP version.

```
dnf install -y http://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-34.rpm
dnf module install php:remi-8.1
```

Next, install PHP with other required PHP extensions using the following command.

```
dnf install php php-cli php-common php-spl php-fpm php-hash php-ctype php-json php-mbstring  php-gd php-curl php-mysqli php-xml php-gmp php-xmlrpc php-bcmath php-soap php-ldap unzip -y
```

Next, start and enable Apache, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM.

```
systemctl start httpd mariadb php-fpm
systemctl enable httpd mariadb php-fpm
```

## Step 2 – Install Symfony

First, install Composer with the following command.

```
wget https://getcomposer.org/installer -O composer-installer.php
php composer-installer.php --filename=composer --install-dir=/usr/local/bin
```

Next, navigate to the Apache web root directory and install Symfony 6 with the following command.

```
cd /var/www/html
composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton symfony6
```

Next, set proper permission and ownership to the Symfony directory.

```
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/symfony6
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/symfony6
```

Now, change the directory to Symfony and start the Symfony server with the following command.

```
cd /var/www/html/symfony6
php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 -t public
```

You will see the following output.

```
[Thu Aug 17 00:17:19 2023] PHP 8.1.9 Development Server (http://0.0.0.0:8000) started
```

Now, open your web browser and access Symfony using the URL **http://your-server-ip:8000.** You will see the following screen.

Next, press CTRL+C to stop the Symfony server. We will configure Apache for Symfony.

## Step 3 – Configure Apache for Symfony 6

Next, you must create an Apache virtual host configuration file for Symfony.

```
nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/symfony.conf
```

Add the following configuration:

```
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin admin@example.com
   DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/symfony6/public"
   ServerName symfony.example.com

    <Directory /var/www/html/symfony6/public>
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All
    </Directory>

   ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/example.com-error_log"
   CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/example.com-access_log" combined

</VirtualHost>
```

Save and close the file when you are done.

Then, restart the Apache service to apply the changes.

```
systemctl restart httpd
```

## Step 4 – Access Symfony Web Interface

Now, open your web browser and access the Symfony dashboard using the URL **http://symfony.example.com.**

![symfony dashboard](https://www.atlantic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/p1-13.png)

## Conclusion

In this post, we showed you how to install Symfony6 on Fedora Linux. You can build and deploy a scalable PHP application using the Symfony framework. You can now try Symfony on [dedicated server hosting](https://www.atlantic.net/dedicated-server-hosting/) from Atlantic.Net!