Lightweight web app server for PHP?

Question

I\'m doing PHP development. And coming from a Rails background, I\'m looking for a like-for-like replacement for Webrick in PHP. Is there such a light weight server? Something w

Answer 1

Most here will use apache but there are other options. IBM posted a nice long article on the subject. Not all of them will support PHP.

Of these alternatives, lighttpd is probably the most popular.

Answer 2

You could try cherokee. It doesn't come configured with PHP out of the box, but it's easy to set up and very fast,

Answer 3

I use Apache for PHP development.

On Windows I recommend installing XAMPP - it's a full pre-configured PHP/MySQL stack.

Mac OS X can be a bit trickier, but I've managed with the pre-installed setup.

Answer 4

You can optimize Apache as your need. I prefer Apache for it's robustness.

Answer 5

have you taken a look at lighthttpd?

Answer 6

For development, just use...

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080