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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ Downloading Symfony2
First, check that you have installed and configured a Web server (such as
Apache) with PHP 5.3.2 or higher.

.. tips::

Since PHP 5.4, you could use the Build-in web server. For development purpose only, it can help you to start your project right now.
Just use this command to launch the server:

.. code-block:: bash

php -S localhost:80 -t /path/to/www

Where "/path/to/www" is the path to some directory on your machine that you'll extract Symfony into so that the eventual URL to your application is "http://localhost/Symfony/app_dev.php".
You can also extract Symfony first and then start the web server in the Symfony "web" directory. If you do this, the URL to your application will be "http://localhost/app_dev.php".

Ready? Start by downloading the "`Symfony2 Standard Edition`_", a Symfony
:term:`distribution` that is preconfigured for the most common use cases and
also contains some code that demonstrates how to use Symfony2 (get the archive
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