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Quickly spawn a local development web server using PHP
By North Street, A Creative Studio
Have a script you’ve downloaded or need to test out some simple code, but don’t want to bother with MAMP?
1. Fire up terminal
2. CD in the directory in question
3. Enter this command:
php -S localhost:3000
4. That’s it. Navigate to http://localhost:3000 and you’ll see your code running.
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