RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.

RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.

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Features:

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• Production-ready
• PCI DSS compliant (HTTP plugin)
• PSR-7 HTTP server (file uploads, error handling, static files, hot reload, middleware, event listeners)
• HTTPS and HTTP/2 support (including HTTP/2 Push, H2C)
• A Fully customizable http(s)/2 server
• FastCGI support (HTTP plugin)
• Flexible environment configuration
• No external PHP dependencies (64bit version required)
• Integrated metrics (Prometheus)
• Workflow engine by Temporal.io
• Works over TCP, UNIX sockets and process pipes
• Automatic worker replacement, graceful and safe PHP process destruction
• Worker create/allocate/destroy timeouts
• Max requests per worker limitation
• Worker lifecycle management (controller)
  • max_memory (graceful stop)
  • ttl (graceful stop)
  • idle_ttl (graceful stop)
  • exec_tll (brute, max_execution_time)
• Protocol, worker and job level error management (including PHP errors)
• Development Mode
• Integrations with Symfony, Laravel, Slim, CakePHP, Zend Expressive
• Application server for Spiral
• Works on Windows 10/11 and WSL2

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Installation

The easiest way to get the latest RoadRunner version is to use one of the pre-built release binaries, which are available for OSX, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Instructions for using these binaries are on the GitHub releases page.

Docker:

To get the roadrunner binary file you can use our docker image: ghcr.io/roadrunner-server/roadrunner:2023.X.X (more information about image and tags can be found here).

FROM ghcr.io/roadrunner-server/roadrunner:2023.X.X AS roadrunner
FROM php:8.2-cli

COPY --from=roadrunner /usr/bin/rr /usr/local/bin/rr

# USE THE RR

Configuration located in the .rr.yaml file (full sample):

Installation via Composer

You can also install RoadRunner automatically using command shipped with the composer package, run:

composer require spiral/roadrunner-http nyholm/psr7
./vendor/bin/rr get-binary

Server binary will be available at the root of your project.

Note

PHP's extensions php-curl and php-zip are required to download RoadRunner automatically. PHP's extensions php-sockets need to be installed to run roadrunner. Check with php --modules your installed extensions.

Installation option for the Debian-derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint, MX, etc)

wget https://github.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner/releases/download/v2023.X.X/roadrunner-2023.X.X-linux-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i roadrunner-2023.X.X-linux-amd64.deb

Dowload the latest release via curl:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner/master/download-latest.sh | sh

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Configuration can be located in .rr.yaml file (full sample):

version: '3'

rpc:
  listen: tcp://127.0.0.1:6001

server:
  command: "php worker.php"

http:
  address: "0.0.0.0:8080"

logs:
  level: error

Read more in Documentation.

Example Worker:

<?php

use Spiral\RoadRunner;
use Nyholm\Psr7;

include "vendor/autoload.php";

$worker = RoadRunner\Worker::create();
$psrFactory = new Psr7\Factory\Psr17Factory();

$worker = new RoadRunner\Http\PSR7Worker($worker, $psrFactory, $psrFactory, $psrFactory);

while ($req = $worker->waitRequest()) {
    try {
        $rsp = new Psr7\Response();
        $rsp->getBody()->write('Hello world!');

        $worker->respond($rsp);
    } catch (\Throwable $e) {
        $worker->getWorker()->error((string)$e);
    }
}

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Available Plugins: link

Run:

To run application server:

$ ./rr serve -c .rr.yaml

License:

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information. Maintained by Spiral Scout.

Contributors

Thanks to all the people who already contributed!