Start a PHP server on Mac OS X

Question

I am figuring out how to use PHP OpenId

I have cloned the repo to the ~/www directory. There are some examples in the php-open-id/examples directory which I wanted to run.

Specifically, I wanted to render the page php-open-id/examples/consumer/index.php in order to better understand the API. I started a server in the php-open-id/examples directory using

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 

and I navigated to localhost://consumer/index.php

But it didn't work. It shows a dialog box to save the file. What is the correct way to render this PHP file?

Answer 1

I have found a solution :

Run the server using

php -S localhost:9000 

Answer 2

Mac OS

Just Visit your project folder

open terminal on that folder

and Run php -S localhost:9000

then you can see

PHP 7.3.24-(to be removed in future macOS) Development Server started at Tue Mar 30 11:58:49 2021 Listening on http://localhost:9000 

After that you are able to access your application on http://localhost:9000 if your port is not available try to change port