PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

Please don't do that. Nobody is going to downvote you for saying that (in fact in general that seems to be the average attitude here towards PHP) but you will get downvoted for a) not explaining what those other things are b) complaining about mythical downvotes. So please explain what it is you want to see, then maybe we can get some discussion going -- which is the purpose of HN!

Re: PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

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Post by daleharvey » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:32 AM UTC

I spend most of my time writing either erlang or node web apps, its terribly annoying when I switch to python / php / ruby and get told I have to configure some web server to get started. I have had a ruby/python app start a development server but still suggest I configure against apache for production

Its an absolute dream to be able to just download an application, compile it, start it, point nginx at it and bam, its live

Re: PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

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Post by kijin » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 5:33 AM UTC

And some idiot somewhere is going to use it in production in 3... 2... 1...

Re: PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

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Post by kungfu71186 » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #5

I spend most of my time writing either erlang or node web apps, its terribly annoying when I switch to python / php / ruby and get told I have to configure some web server to get started. I have had a ruby/python app start a development server but still suggest I configure against apache for production Its an absolute dream to be able to just download an application, compile it, start it, point nginx at it and bam, i…

I hope you mean by live, that it's just for testing purposes. Because that's all it's suppose to be for. But i agree, this will be nice to be able to develop something on your own machine or whatever and then transfer it over to the actual web server by whatever means.

Re: PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

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Post by jaequery » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 6:18 AM UTC

here is an even easier way: sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Re: PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

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Post by cmelbye » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 6:40 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #5

I spend most of my time writing either erlang or node web apps, its terribly annoying when I switch to python / php / ruby and get told I have to configure some web server to get started. I have had a ruby/python app start a development server but still suggest I configure against apache for production Its an absolute dream to be able to just download an application, compile it, start it, point nginx at it and bam, i…

Is that not possible with Ruby? "thin -R config.ru start", "unicorn", or something along those lines. Point nginx at the port(s), and you're done.

Re: PHP 5.4 Has A Built-In Development Web Server

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Post by dangrossman » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 7:09 AM UTC

jaequery wrote: post #8

here is an even easier way: sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

That's not easier for a variety of reasons, the first one being it only works on OS distros with apt.