Install Symfony on a VPS

SoftServer installs a production-ready Symfony stack from the panel — no manual server setup and no SSH required. Nginx, PHP, Composer and MariaDB are configured for you.

Install steps

1. Open your server and go to Platform Installation.
2. Choose Symfony as the backend. Pick a monolith setup, or split it with a separate frontend if you build a decoupled app.
3. Confirm the install. The panel provisions PHP (8.1–8.4), Nginx, Composer and the database, then bootstraps the Symfony application.
4. When the job finishes, open the domain shown in the panel.

After install

• Point your domain under Domains and enable free SSL.
• Manage your database and credentials from the Databases section.
• Connect a Git repository to deploy your own Symfony project and pull updates.
• Enable background workers with Supervisor if you use Symfony Messenger.

Requirements handled for you

You never install PHP extensions by hand — the required extensions for Symfony (intl, mbstring, xml, ctype, iconv and more) are enabled during setup. You can add extra extensions later from PHP management.

Symfony runs alongside the rest of the panel: SSL, cron, Redis and backups all work the same way as for any other app.