Rigly Rigly Beta

Introduction

Rigly is a local PHP development environment for macOS. It serves the projects on your Mac at addresses like shop.test, with the PHP version, databases and tools each one needs, from a native menu bar app and a rigly command.

What Rigly does

  • Serves your sites. Park a folder and every project inside it gets its own address. Laravel, WordPress, Symfony, plain PHP and static sites are detected automatically. Sites
  • HTTPS with one switch, using a certificate authority on your Mac that browsers trust. HTTPS
  • Every PHP version from 7.4 to 8.5, with a default and per-site versions, php.ini settings, Xdebug, PCOV and SPX. PHP
  • Node through nvm, with per-site versions and .nvmrc support. Node
  • Services: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, MongoDB, Meilisearch, Typesense and MinIO. Services
  • A mail catcher, dumps and Insights, so you can see what your app sends and does. Mail · Insights
  • Public sharing through TunnelPad, with a request inspector. Sharing
  • Workspaces: a second copy of a site on its own git branch and database. Workspaces

How it works

Rigly runs a small background service that looks after:

  • Caddy, the web server, which answers for every site and handles HTTPS;
  • PHP-FPM, one pool for each PHP version your sites use;
  • a DNS responder, which answers *.test with your Mac's address. macOS sends those lookups to it, and nothing else.

It also runs the databases and tools you add. Everything lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Rigly. Rigly doesn't use Homebrew, Docker or the PHP that comes with your Mac, and leaves them alone.

The menu bar app and the rigly command share the same settings, so you can use either, or both.

Requirements

  • macOS 15 Sequoia or later
  • A Mac with Apple silicon or an Intel processor
  • About 200 MB of disk space for the basics, plus whatever PHP versions and services you add

Quick start

  1. Download Rigly, open the disk image and drag Rigly to Applications.
  2. Open Rigly and click Install. macOS asks for your password once, so Rigly can route .test addresses to your Mac.
  3. Click Park folder and choose the folder that holds your projects, such as ~/Code.
  4. Open http://<project>.test in your browser.

The installation guide covers each step in detail.