Quickserve

Quickly serve a PHP project. Do you want a server:

That is perfectly suited for your PHP project with a single index file that should receive all requests, except those for static resources.
That quickly starts and stops when you request it.
That runs in any directory right away.
That handles multiple requests in parallel.
That can have multiple instances running at the same time.

Then this is what you want. This is a quick python script that allows you to run a server using nginx and php-fpm in any server. This script will create some temporary configuration for nginx and php-fpm and then run these services using these configuration files. When you're done developing you just press Ctrl + C and the script stops the server and removes all temporary files, leaving you with a nice and clean filesystem.

Requirements

This script requires recent versions of nginx and php-fpm. By default the script requires these commands to be available on the PATH for the user you're executing the script under.

Windows: I don't think this is going to work for you.
Mac OS: You can use macports to get nginx and a more recent version of php-fpm. Note that macports installs php-fpm for php 5.4 as a binary with the name php-fpm54. The php-fpm you'll find installed is the one provided with Mac OS. Either edit the script, provide a command line parameter every time you're using the script or create a symlink that precedes the one Mac OS provides.
Linux: nginx and php-fpm are available in most recent distributions their package managers. Just make sure nginx and php-fpm are available on the PATH and you should be good to go.

HTTP2 and TLS

To enable HTTP2 install nginx version 1.9.5 or higher and configure a TLS certificate. By default quickserve will look in /usr/local/etc/nginx/ for a cert.pem and a cert.key file. Alternatively, you can provide certificate and key files using the parameters --nginx-key and --nginx-cert

Use the following command to generate a self-signed certificate for localhost:

openssl req -x509 -sha256 -newkey rsa:2048 \
-keyout /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.key -out /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.pem \
-days 1024 -nodes -subj '/CN=localhost'

chmod 0600 /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.key

If you want to use other (local) domains over HTTP2, generate a certificate with multiple (wildcard) domains:

Create a file openssl.cnf:

[req]
distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
x509_extensions = v3_req
prompt = no

[req_distinguished_name]
CN = localhost

[v3_req]
subjectKeyIdentifier = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid,issuer
basicConstraints = CA:TRUE
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[alt_names]
DNS.1 = localhost
DNS.2 = *.localhost.dev
DNS.3 = *.example.dev
IP.1 = 127.0.0.1

Generate a certificate:

openssl req -x509 -sha256 -newkey rsa:2048 \
-keyout /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.key \
-out /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.pem \
-days 1024 -nodes -config openssl.cnf

Getting started

Want to get some help? USe --help on the script to see what options are available. Some examples:

# Run the script in the current directory using app.php as the index
quickserve.py app.php

# Change the root folder to public and use index.php (default) as the index
quickserve.py -r ./public

# Determine the root and index by giving a path
quickserve.py -b ~/development/website/public/app.php

# Change the port and interface (only allow from localhost on port 1234)
quickserve.py -i 127.0.0.1 -p 1234

# Use a different php-fpm binary
quickserve.py --php-fpm-bin php-fpm54

rnijveld/quickserve

Quickserve

Requirements

HTTP2 and TLS

Getting started