使用php7作为唯一的Web服务器可能吗？

Question

While reading Symfony framework installation instructions I came across a recommendation to use php7 buit-in web server, but the same instruction suggests that php internal web server is not for production environment.

Configuring a Web Server

The preferred way to develop your Symfony application is to use PHP's internal web server. However, when using an older PHP version or when running the application in the production environment, you'll need to use a fully-featured web server. This article describes several ways to use Symfony with Apache or Nginx.

I wanted to setup a test server with a minimal bundle that can serve php applications, i.e. Ubuntu 14 + PHP7 but it appears the minimal bundle is Ubuntu + Nginx + PHP7

After an hour's Google browsing, I only got thousands of articles on PHP web server usage with Apache, Nginx but there is lack of info on using PHP7 inbuilt webserver alone, without any other server

So is php7 alone web server possible or is it a toy or a development tool rather than production server?

Answer 1

You could use Run with built-in web server feature of PHP.

This feature is supported since PHP 5 and using php-cli. If you want to use it in PHP 7 just install php7.0-cli.

Then you can quickly setup a web server using this command (in terminal):

php -S <web server address>:<port> -t <document_root>

Example:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t /home/public_html/public

And access your web using browser with that url: 127.0.0.1:8080

Also you can replace it with IP or domain name of your remote server and it still work

Hope it exactly what you need