[Cialug] Lightweight webserver for local php dev

[David Champion]

I've seen various methods of running things like XAMPP, but IMHO it's crazy
simple to set up something like what Barry described, or maybe even just
give each dev a stripped down VM with the LAMP stack configured.

Here's a howto on running XAMPP on Ubuntu.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=223410

-dc

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:

> That easyphp product sort of sounds like a product I found called MAMP:
>
> MacOS
> Apache
> MySQL
> PHP
>
> This comes as a standalone package that sets up all requirements for an
> Apache server with PHP installed. Extremely painless and easy to remove or
> ignore.
>
> Down side I've found (so far) is that it installs its own Perl setup, and
> getting the MySQL-Perl connection going inside the MAMP environment was less
> trivial. Something to work on in my [ample] spare time...
>
> --Don Ellis
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Crouse <crouse at usalug.net> wrote:
>
>> http://www.easyphp.org/
>> maybe ?
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > My team works on numerous projects for internal company use. Many of
>>>>> them
>>>>> > are Python/Django projects and we can test them locally with Python's
>>>>> built
>>>>> > in web server just by running ./manage.py runserver in the project's
>>>>> root
>>>>> > and then visiting http://localhost:8000/ in your browser.
>>>>> > Is there something like this for PHP?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why not just use Apache and mod_php?  It shouldn't take that long to
>>>>> hack together a configuration file that listens on a high port and
>>>>> then run it as a user...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Oh yeah, that's pretty obvious. I'm so used to running apache as a
>>>> service that I forgot you could run it as a regular user. I will look into
>>>> this and let the list know if I find something.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It's not appearing to be as trivial as I'd first thought. Running apache2
>>> on Ubuntu 10.04 results in bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER} even when trying
>>> to do apache2 -S
>>>
>>> apache2ctl may work but it's going to require a complicated, and likely
>>> machine dependent configuration file for each project. I'll keep looking
>>> into it though.
>>>
>>> Eric: PHP5.4 improvements look sweet, that'll be nice.
>>>
>>> ...
>
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