PHP Built-in Server
PHP has a really useful feature, which is a built in web-server, great for local testing of a php website. It's all installed and available by default on MacOS and some versions of Linux. To use, cd to the html root directory and run:
$php -S localhost:8888 testserver.php
This will run the file testserver.php for each request received from the local machine at port 8888.
Example testserver.php file:
<? /* remove get parameters */ $file_uri = explode('?',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],2)[0]; /* remove leading / to make relative unix path */ if ($file_uri[0] == "/") $file_uri = substr($file_uri,1); /* run controller to handle non-existent uri */ if (! is_file($file_uri)) { include 'controller.php'; } else { /* all other files served automatically by php server */ return False; } ?>PHP Manual - Built-in web server