[Cialug] Lightweight webserver for local php dev

Crouse crouse at usalug.net
Mon Aug 1 16:28:15 CDT 2011


http://www.easyphp.org/
maybe ?

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > My team works on numerous projects for internal company use. Many of
>>> them
>>> > are Python/Django projects and we can test them locally with Python's
>>> built
>>> > in web server just by running ./manage.py runserver in the project's
>>> root
>>> > and then visiting http://localhost:8000/ in your browser.
>>> > Is there something like this for PHP?
>>>
>>> Why not just use Apache and mod_php?  It shouldn't take that long to
>>> hack together a configuration file that listens on a high port and
>>> then run it as a user...
>>>
>>>
>> Oh yeah, that's pretty obvious. I'm so used to running apache as a service
>> that I forgot you could run it as a regular user. I will look into this and
>> let the list know if I find something.
>>
>>
> It's not appearing to be as trivial as I'd first thought. Running apache2
> on Ubuntu 10.04 results in bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER} even when trying
> to do apache2 -S
>
> apache2ctl may work but it's going to require a complicated, and likely
> machine dependent configuration file for each project. I'll keep looking
> into it though.
>
> Eric: PHP5.4 improvements look sweet, that'll be nice.
>
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