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I’m starting to work with PHP more these days and I’ve been wondering what the best PHP webserver might be for a dev environment. Ideally, it would be easy to build, live only in the project deps directory and be easy to configure. Also, decent performance would be a plus.
In python land, werkzeug would be an equivalent of the type of server I’m thinking of.
In my opinion, the best webserver for the dev environment is as close as you can come to exactly the webserver in production. PHP is a lot less ‘stand-alone’ in some cases then Python, and it prevents nasty errors and surprises when pushing code to the production server. All kinds of havoc can ensue when a $_SERVER array is just that essential bit different, or something runs as (fast)cgi instead of as a module.