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title: Run Symfony on Google App Engine Flexible Environment description: Learn how to deploy a Symfony app to Google App Engine flexible environment. author: bshaffer tags: App Engine, Symfony, PHP date_published: 2017-03-15

Symfony

Symfony is a set of PHP Components, a Web Application framework, a Philosophy, and a Community — all working together in harmony.

– symfony.com

You can check out PHP on Google Cloud Platform to get an overview of PHP itself and learn ways to run PHP apps on Google Cloud Platform.

Prerequisites

Create a project in the Google Cloud Platform Console and make note of your project ID.
Enable billing for your project.
Install the Google Cloud SDK.

Prepare

Follow the official documentation for installing symfony from symfony.com.

Run

Run the app with the following command:
```
php bin/console server:run
```
Visit http://localhost:8000 to see the Symfony Welcome page.

Deploy

Create an app.yaml file with the following contents:

runtime: php
env: flex

runtime_config:
  document_root: web

Create an nginx-app.conf file with the following contents:

location / {
  # try to serve file directly, fallback to front controller
  try_files $uri /app.php$is_args$args;
}

Add the following under "scripts" in composer.json:
```
"post-deploy-cmd": [
    "chmod -R ug+w $APP_DIR/var"
]
```
In the context of Symfony's composer.json, it will look like this:
Run the following command to deploy your app:
```
gcloud app deploy
```
Visit http://YOUR_PROJECT_ID.appspot.com to see the Symfony welcome page!

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