Could not open input file : localhost:8080

Question

On Windows, to run the PHP web server from the command prompt I type:

php -s localhost:80800 -t public

And I get this error:

Could not open input file : localhost:8080

And yet cmd php test.php will echo the text. Why?

Answer 1

It was just the capital S.

php -S localhost:8888 -t public

Now I can see the page in a browser.

I had to cd to the right directory ...and public has an index.php file.

Answer 2

It will work without using XAMPP/WAMP or any other external server, as PHP has its own server inbuilt. You have done a mistake in typing s in php -s localhost:80800.

This command will work - php -S localhost:80800.

"s" in the command will be capital, not small...