Basic Usage: Introduction

After installing, you are ready to start using HHVM.

For a majority of cases, you will run HHVM in one of two different ways:

• In command-line mode to run standalone scripts.
• In server mode, where HHVM will serve web requests from users.

Default Configuration

The default configuration for HHVM is php.ini for command-line mode and server.ini for server mode (both normally found in /etc/hhvm/ on Linux distros)

The default configurations will be sufficient for a majority of use cases. Thus, you most likely will not need to tweak these INI settings, etc. They will be loaded automatically when you start HHVM.

However, HHVM does allow you to adjust configuration options to your liking.