In June 2026, the author migrated a 15‑year‑old WordPress blog containing nearly 2,000 posts, 2,200 comments and 2.6 GB of images to a Hugo static site, using Claude Code for planning, a custom Go converter, Dockerized Waline for comments, and Caddy on a VPS, achieving 99.3% URL compatibility in about two days.
This guide shows how to install ThinkPHP8, create a controller, configure a Caddyfile for FrankenPHP, launch the Docker container, and test the application, providing all commands and code snippets needed for a fast backend setup.
FrankenPHP is a high‑performance PHP runtime built on the Caddy web server that embeds the PHP interpreter, offering faster request handling, lower resource usage, and seamless compatibility with popular PHP frameworks, plus simple Docker‑based deployment.
Discover how Caddy, a Go‑based open‑source web server, simplifies HTTPS with automatic certificate management, offers a minimalist installation, supports modern protocols, and provides powerful features like reverse proxy, load balancing, and built‑in security, making it a compelling alternative to Nginx and Apache.
This guide walks through setting up FrankenPHP on Ubuntu, integrating it with Laravel and Octane, configuring Caddy, and benchmarking performance against traditional Nginx + PHP‑FPM, showing significant speed improvements.
FrankenPHP, now officially supported by the PHP Foundation, replaces the traditional PHP‑FPM setup with a Go‑based Caddy server that embeds PHP, offering faster request handling, simplified deployment, worker mode, modern protocol support, and extensibility, while still being evaluated for robustness.
FrankenPHP, created by Kévin Dunglas and backed by Les‑Tilleuls.coop and the PHP Foundation, embeds the PHP interpreter into Go and Caddy to simplify deployment, boost performance, lower hosting costs, support real‑time features, and offer a worker mode that dramatically speeds up Laravel, Symfony and Yii applications.
On May 14, 2025, the PHP Foundation announced official support for the FrankenPHP project, moving it to the PHP GitHub organization, outlining new governance, collaboration processes, and future prospects that could boost visibility, community contributions, and performance‑focused deployment options for PHP back‑end applications.
This tutorial introduces Caddy, a modern Go‑based web server, shows how to install it with Docker, and demonstrates static and dynamic proxy setups, directory routing, gzip compression, and address rewriting for a SpringBoot‑Vue e‑commerce project.
FrankenPHP, a Go‑based PHP application server built on Caddy, claims to double web request performance and halve developer/DevOps workload, offering container‑ready deployment, automatic HTTPS, native PHP extensions, in‑memory mode, structured logging, Prometheus metrics, and experimental HTTP/3 support.
Learn how to install Caddy 2, set up system services, configure global and site-specific Caddyfiles, and integrate PHP‑FPM, covering static site hosting, reverse proxy, HTTP redirects, and troubleshooting, with step‑by‑step commands and code examples for seamless migration from Apache or Nginx.
This guide introduces FrankenPHP—a modern PHP application server built on Caddy—detailing its key features, Docker deployment, standalone binary usage, command‑line script execution, and how to mount local directories for custom PHP projects.
This guide introduces Caddy 2, an enterprise‑grade Go‑based web server, outlines its key features and advantages over Nginx, provides step‑by‑step installation commands for various Linux distributions and macOS, and demonstrates comprehensive Caddyfile configurations including site blocks, global options, logging, TLS, reverse proxy, and modular snippets.
This article introduces the open‑source Wiki.js platform, explains its features, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to install it on Linux using Docker Compose, including Docker‑compose installation, configuration files, container management, and optional HTTPS setup with Caddy.
This article provides a detailed tutorial on installing Caddy on CentOS and Docker, configuring its powerful Caddyfile syntax, enabling HTTPS, reverse and forward proxy, gzip compression, address rewriting, and directory routing, demonstrating how Caddy can replace Nginx for modern web hosting.
This guide walks you through Caddy 2’s features, how to compile it from source, install it via systemd or Docker, and configure powerful HTTPS, TLS, plugins, and modular Caddyfile snippets for modern web deployments.
This guide introduces Caddy 2, explains its advantages over Nginx, walks through compiling it with xcaddy and third‑party plugins, shows host and Docker installation methods, and demonstrates modular Caddyfile configuration, TLS automation, and service management with systemd.
This article introduces Caddy, a Go‑based web server, compares its advantages over Nginx, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing Go, compiling Caddy2 with plugins via xcaddy, configuring Caddyfile snippets, setting up TLS, HTTP/3, and deploying Caddy on both host and Docker environments.
