[Cialug] Lightweight webserver for local php dev

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 1 23:15:36 CDT 2011


Not exactly what you're looking for, but have you heard of phar?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.phar.php

It's kind of like a Java jar. More of a deployment thing than a developer
thing.

-dc

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:16 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've seen various methods of running things like XAMPP, but IMHO it's
>> crazy simple to set up something like what Barry described, or maybe even
>> just give each dev a stripped down VM with the LAMP stack configured.
>>
>> Here's a howto on running XAMPP on Ubuntu.
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=223410
>>
>>
> Right, running a full lamp stamp is not a problem. We all use Ubuntu for
> development and we sometimes use VMs.
>
> What would be sweet is to:
>
> {bzr|git|svn} branch some-project
> cd some-project
> fab runserver # or whatever
> open http://localhost:8000/ to test.
>
> xamp, wamp, easyphp, etc have their uses but I don't think they're really
> any better than what we're doing now, installing php and apache system wide
> and configuring a virtual host for each site.
>
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