How to Use PHP's built-in Web Server
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How to Use PHP's built-in Web Server
Since PHP 5.4 the CLI SAPI comes with a built-in web server. It can be used to run your PHP applications locally during development, for testing or for application demonstrations. This way, you don't have to bother configuring a full-featured web server such as Apache or Nginx.
Caution
The built-in web server is meant to be run in a controlled environment. It is not designed to be used on public networks.
Starting the Web Server
Running a Symfony application using PHP's built-in web server is as easy as
executing the server:run command:
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$ php app/console server:runThis starts a server at localhost:8000 that executes your Symfony application.
The command will wait and will respond to incoming HTTP requests until you
terminate it (this is usually done by pressing Ctrl and C).
By default, the web server listens on port 8000 on the loopback device. You can change the socket passing an ip address and a port as a command-line argument:
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$ php app/console server:run 192.168.0.1:8080Command Options
The built-in web server expects a "router" script (read about the "router"
script on php.net) as an argument. Symfony already passes such a router
script when the command is executed in the prod or in the dev environment.
Use the --router option in any other environment or to use another router
script:
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$ php app/console server:run --env=test --router=app/config/router_test.phpIf your application's document root differs from the standard directory layout,
you have to pass the correct location using the --docroot option:
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$ php app/console server:run --docroot=public_html
