So I'm watching Laracasts videos and got confused on how he got the document to listen to a folder on his desktop?
in the picture attached is a screenshot of his document root folder listening on php-learning folder on the Desktop similar to mine. I'm using OS X EL Capitan. My document root says /Users/myname
I'm using the terminal to call php -S localhost:8888
I figured it out, when you're working with a PHP server through command line make sure in terminal you change directory CD into the folder and start the server within the terminal php -S localhost:whateveryoupick.
for everyone else like me who looking for fast answer here is command to start PHP server with specified folder listing
php -S localhost:2376 -t /var/www/tmp
for windows user path are different it will be like c:\www\tmp
If you need to run this server continually add it to your system startup path ,
in linux run
$ crontab -e
@reboot php -S localhost:2376 -t /var/www/tmp
in windows create bat file e.g phpserver.bat and add to it php -S localhost:2376 -t c:\www\tmp and grape phpserver.bat to startup folder C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
PHP does provide a single threaded built in web server for development purpose. From php.net....
As of PHP 5.4.0, the CLI SAPI provides a built-in web server.
The web server runs a only one single-threaded process, so PHP applications will stall if a request is blocked.
URI requests are served from the current working directory where PHP was started, unless the -t option is used to specify an explicit document root. If a URI request does not specify a file, then either index.php or index.html in the given directory are returned. If neither file exists, the lookup for index.php and index.html will be continued in the parent directory and so on until one is found or the document root has been reached. If an index.php or index.html is found, it is returned and $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] is set to the trailing part of the URI. Otherwise a 404 response code is returned.
