osm2vectortiles/docs/serve-vector-tiles.md

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# Serve Vector Tiles

We provide a free and fast CDN for accessing the vector tiles.
But you have the choice to self host the vector tiles if you want to.

For serving vector tiles we recommend using
[tileserver-php from Klokan Technologies](https://github.com/klokantech/tileserver-php)
which supports serving MBTiles containing vector tile PBFs out of the box.

## Apache

### Installation

If you have an Apache webhosting follow the
[installation instructions](https://github.com/klokantech/tileserver-php#installation) to set up tileserver-php on your server.

### Download MBTiles

1. On the server [download your desired extract of a country or the
entire world MBTiles](/downloads).
2. Put it in the public folder `/var/www/` and you are good to go.

## Docker

You can also run tileserver-php with Docker.

Pull down the latest image.

```bash
docker pull klokantech/tileserver-php
```

And mount the directory with the MBTiles to the public folder.

```bash
docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www -p 80:80 klokantech/tileserver-php
```