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Version: 8.x

How to Deploy a Symfony Application

require 'recipe/symfony.php';

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Deployer is a free and open source deployment tool written in PHP. It helps you to deploy your Symfony application to a server. It is very easy to use and has a lot of features.

Three main features of Deployer are:

  • Provisioning - provision your server for you.
  • Zero downtime deployment - deploy your application without a downtime.
  • Rollbacks - rollback your application to a previous version, if something goes wrong.

Additionally, Deployer has a lot of other features, like:

  • Easy to use - Deployer is very easy to use. It has a simple and intuitive syntax.
  • Fast - Deployer is very fast. It uses parallel connections to deploy your application.
  • Secure - Deployer uses SSH to connect to your server.
  • Supports all major PHP frameworks - Deployer supports all major PHP frameworks.

You can read more about Deployer in Getting Started.

The deploy task of Symfony consists of:

The symfony recipe is based on the common recipe.

Configuration​

symfony_version​

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Default value
$result = run('{{bin/console}} --version');
preg_match_all('/(\d+\.?)+/', $result, $matches);
return $matches[0][0] ?? 5.0;

shared_dirs​

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Overrides shared_dirs from recipe/deploy/shared.php.

Default value
[
    'var/log',
]

shared_files​

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Overrides shared_files from recipe/deploy/shared.php.

Default value
[
    '.env.local',
]

writable_dirs​

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Overrides writable_dirs from recipe/deploy/writable.php.

Default value
[
    'var',
    'var/cache',
    'var/log',
    'var/sessions',
]

log_files​

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Default value
'var/log/*.log'

migrations_config​

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doctrine_schema_validate_config​

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bin/console​

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Default value
'{{bin/php}} {{release_or_current_path}}/bin/console'

console_options​

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Default value
return '--no-interaction';

Tasks​

database:migrate​

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Migrates database.

doctrine:schema:validate​

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Validate the Doctrine mapping files.

deploy:cache:clear​

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Clears cache.

deploy:dump-env​

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Optimize environment variables.

deploy​

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Deploys project.

This task is group task which contains next tasks: