Symfony2 has a built-in webserver works in PHP 5.4 for development environment. The server can be started by running command: ./app/console server:run.

Today I wrote a daemon script for that built-in webserver. This script works Linux distributions; especially I tested CentOS 6.3 on vagrant. It will be helpful for developers who develop Symfony2 web applications on Linux virtual machines and feel un-convenience of starting the built-in webserver whenever the machine reboots.

NOTICE: This daemon script is for development environments. You may not use it for your products or production environments.

Installation

(1) Copy and paste the following shell script code into /etc/init.d/symfony-server in your Lunix.

/etc/init.d/symfony-server

#!/bin/sh

# symfony-server        init file for starting up the symfony2 server daemon
#
# chkconfig:   - 20 80
# description: Starts and stops the symfony-server daemon.

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

name="symfony-server"
prog="symfony-server"
exec="app/console"
pidfile=/var/run/symfony-server/symfony-server.pid
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/symfony-server

SYMFONY_DIR="/vagrant"
SYMFONY_SERVER_USER="root"
SYMFONY_SERVER_ARGUMENTS="server:run 0.0.0.0:80 --env=dev"

start() {
    [ -d "$SYMFONY_DIR" ] || exit 7
    cd "$SYMFONY_DIR"
    [ -x "$exec" ] || exit 5
    echo -n $"Starting $name: "
    daemon --pidfile=$pidfile --user $SYMFONY_SERVER_USER "$exec $SYMFONY_SERVER_ARGUMENTS >> /dev/null 2>&1 &"

    retval=$?
    echo
    if [ $retval -ne 0 ]; then
        return $retval
    fi

    touch "$lockfile"

    sleep 3

    pid=`pidof php`

    if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
        echo $pid > $pidfile
        return 0
    else
        return 1
    fi
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $name: "
    killproc -p $pidfile $name

    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
    return $retval
}

restart() {
    stop
    start
}

reload() {
    false
}

rh_status() {
    status -p $pidfile $name
}

rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        rh_status_q && exit 0
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        restart
        ;;
    reload)
        rh_status_q || exit 7
        reload
        ;;
    status)
        rh_status
        ;;
    condrestart)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        restart
        ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart}"
        exit 2
esac
exit $?

(2) If you need, change the path of SYMFONY_DIR to fit your Symfony2.

(3) Add execution permission to /etc/init.d/symfony-server.

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/symfony-server

(4) Add it to the servicies automatically start on booting

sudo chkconfig --add symfony-server
sudo chkconfig symfony-server on

(5) Finally, start symfony-server service

sudo service symfony-server start

Now, enjoy it :)

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