Valet Cubed

A fast, minimal PHP development environment for Linux. No Vagrant, no Docker, no editing /etc/hosts by hand.

Valet Cubed runs Nginx and PHP-FPM in the background and serves every project in your sites folder at http://project-name.test. It uses a few megabytes of RAM and gets out of your way.

It is a fork of Valet Linux+, which forked Valet Linux, which forked Laravel Valet. Hence the name.

Park a folder, get sites

Every folder in a parked directory becomes a site. Link single projects, secure them with trusted HTTPS certificates, or proxy them to a local port.

Leaves your DNS alone

Valet only answers for its own domain. Your network’s DNS servers and LAN names keep working.

Any PHP version

Switch the default PHP version, or isolate single sites on anything from PHP 7.0 to 8.5 that your distribution’s repositories offer.

Batteries included

MySQL or MariaDB, Redis, and Mailpit for catching outgoing mail, all managed by the same valet command.

Tested on

Every change runs through real installs on Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, Debian 13, Fedora 44, AlmaLinux 10, Arch Linux, openSUSE Leap 16.0 and ALT Linux p11.