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HOWTOs / Running Bolt using PHP's built-in web server

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For development and testing purposes it is ofter useful to use PHP's built-in web server rather than setting up Apache or Nginx.

To run the built-in server, simply change to the site root directory and run:

php ./bin/console server:run

If you wish to specify a host name or different TCP port, simply add these after server:run, e.g.

php ./bin/console server:run example.com --port=8080

Note: Using the method above is preferred over using php -s directly. The latter might seem to work at first glance, but the paths of assets will be wrong, and you will not be able to edit files through the Bolt backend.



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