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Running a Symfony application from a directory
Step 1 - Install Symfony into your PHP library path:
# cd /usr/share/php
# wget http://www.symfony-project.org/get/symfony-stable.tgz
# gunzip symfony-stable.tgz ; tar -xvf symfony-stable.tar
# ln -s symfony-X/lib symfony
# mkdir data
# ln -s ../symfony-X/data data/symfony
# rm syfony-stable.tar