Create a site

New site in the app, or:

rex site create myshop.rex --type wordpress

The options

Option	Values	Default
Type	wordpress, php, laravel	wordpress
PHP	any installed minor, 7.4–8.5	your configured default
Web server	nginx, frankenphp, apache	nginx (shared)
Database	mysql, mariadb	mysql
Multisite	subdomain, subdirectory	off
Blueprint	any saved blueprint	none

The CLI mirrors the dialog exactly, because it is the same code:

rex site create shop.rex \
  --type wordpress \
  --php 8.3 \
  --server apache \
  --db mariadb \
  --multisite subdomain

WordPress sites

Choosing WordPress runs the install for you — core downloaded, database created, wp-config.php written, admin user made. When it finishes the site is a working WordPress at https://<domain>, and magic login opens wp-admin without a password.

Multisite is chosen at create time because WordPress bakes the choice into the database. Subdomain multisite gets a wildcard certificate so sub.myshop.rex works too.

Laravel and blank PHP

--type laravel and --type php skip the WordPress install and give you a docroot with the right server config. For Laravel that means the docroot points at public/.

Neither creates a database unless you ask for one — a Laravel project usually brings its own .env expectations, and guessing at them would be worse than leaving it to you.

From Git is not offered for WordPress

The New Site dialog offers From Git for Laravel and blank PHP and omits it for WordPress. A WordPress checkout without its database is not a site, and the backend refuses it — so the UI does not draw a button that walks into a refusal. See Create from a git repository.

Where it lands

New sites are provisioned into rexenv’s Sites folder inside ~/Library/Application Support/dev.rexenv.rexenv/, unless you moved that folder in Settings.

To serve a project where it already is, use Link an existing folder instead — that path never copies your files.

The first one is slower

The first site you create downloads the components it needs: a PHP version, nginx, the database engine, Caddy. Later sites reuse them and are quick. See Requirements for the total.