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I've written a PHP CLI script that executes on a Continuous Integration environment. One of the things it does is it runs Protractor tests.
My plan was to get the built-in PHP 5.4's built-in web server to run in the background:
php -S localhost:9000 -t foo/ bar.php &
And then run protractor tests that will use localhost:9000:
protractor ./test/protractor.config.js
However, PHP's built-in web server doesn't run as a background service. I can't seem to find anything that will allow me to do this with PHP.
Can this be done? If so, how? If this is absolutely impossible, I'm open to alternative solutions.
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If you want to run it, open any web browser and enter “localhost/demo. php” and press enter. Your program will run.
PHP Command Line Interface (CLI) Running built-in web server As from version 5.4, PHP comes with built-in server. It can be used to run application without need to install other http server like nginx or apache. Built-in server is designed only in controller environment for development and testing purposes.
The preferred way of running PHP files is within a web server like Apache, Nginx, or IIS—this allows you to run PHP scripts from your browser.
Step 1: The client requests the webpage on the browser. Step 2: The server (where PHP software is installed) then checks for the . php file associated with the request. Step 3: If found, it sends the file to the PHP interpreter (since PHP is an interpreted language), which checks for requested data into the database.
You can use &> to redirect both stderr and stdout to /dev/null (noWhere).
nohup php -S 0.0.0.0:9000 -t foo/bar.php &> /dev/null &
You could do it the same way you would run any application in the background.
nohup php -S localhost:9000 -t foo/ bar.php > phpd.log 2>&1 &
Here, nohup is used to prevent the locking of your terminal. You then need to redirect stdout (>) and stderr (2>).
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