Deploy and Host Symfony 7.3 on Railway

Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components.

About Hosting Symfony 7.3

This template makes it very easy to deploy Symfony. It includes an app service, a worker service and a Postgres database.

After you deploy the template, you can open the public URL of your railway-app service and add /health in your browser. This endpoint should show that the status is up. Now you are free to add your own pages, API routes, scheduled tasks, commands and business logic. Happy coding!

Common Use Cases

Symfony can be used for a variety of use cases, including

Web applications
API-driven backends
Microservices
Enterprise systems

Dependencies for Symfony 7.3 Hosting

This template includes all the dependencies you need to get started: an app service, a worker service and a Postgres database.

Deployment Dependencies

Symfony: Installation & Setup - how to set up Symfony
Symfony: Creating pages - how to create your first page
Symfony: Official documentation - for all further information

Implementation Details

Architecture

This template deploys 3 services:

App Service: Main instance serving your web pages and APIs
Worker Service: Background worker processes for running jobs, scheduled tasks etc.
PostgreSQL: Database for storing your application data

Workers are independent of the main app, allowing you to scale them horizontally for higher performance.

Pre-installed packages

To make it easy for you to start, the following packages are pre-installed:

symfony/flex
symfony/messenger
symfony/scheduler
doctrine/orm

Feel free to install further packages that you would like to use.

Why Deploy Symfony 7.3 on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Symfony 7.3 on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.