HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the development flexibility that PHP provides. Hack is a programming language for HHVM. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of a dynamically typed language with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages. Please note that HHVM is unsupported on 32-bit OSes and there are no current plans to ever add support. In order to start HHVM at boot and stop it properly at shutdown, make sure rc.hhvm is executable and add the following lines to the following files: /etc/rc.d/rc.local ================== # Startup HHVM if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hhvm ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.hhvm start fi /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown =========================== # Stop HHVM if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hhvm ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.hhvm stop fi Default HHVM configuration uses Unix sockets. If you don't use Apache make sure that your web server has write access to the socket file. You can create a new group and add your web server user to this group or just use the main group of your web server and start HHVM as following: hhvm_GROUP=apache /etc/rc.d/rc.hhvm start FastCGI must be configured to communicate with HHVM. A good start point is: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/FastCGI To start a project you have to configure the type checker as well. See the official documentation: http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/install.hack.bootstrapping.php Basically you create an empty .hhconfig file in the root directory of your project: touch .hhconfig and run: hh_client Happy Hacking!