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Asked: 2026-05-13T01:19:55+00:00

I am looking at the possibility of running a PHP-based website (built in symfony)

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I am looking at the possibility of running a PHP-based website (built in symfony) from an encrypted partition on a LAMP server. The reason for this is because a client would have access to the server but I don’t want them to see the source code behind the php website.

I am open to other solutions if this is not possible. For example, possibly running the site from a virtual machine instance that cant be accessed easily.

I am not a big fan of simply obfuscating the code because, according to other posts, it can be easily reversed.

Is it possible to run a PHP app within an environment which is not human-accessible/readable?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t see how an encrypted partition will help here, as the web server will need access to it, and somebody with access to the machine will know how to use that.

    A virtual machine will probably be the easiest thing to secure, because you can serve web pages, but restrict filesystem / RDP access to it.

    There are also reliable obfuscation/pre-compilation solutions on the market. With the latter, you can distribute bytecode that is also speed optimized, which is an argument to present to the client.

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