This is a package that implements the wp server command for WP-CLI.
It uses the PHP built-in server to serve a given WordPress instance.
The main advantage is that you don't have to install and configure Nginx or Apache, which can be overkill if you just want to work on a theme or a plugin.
- PHP 5.4 or newer
- WordPress 3.5 or newer
See https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/wiki/Community-Packages#installing-a-package-without-composer
Just run it:
$ wp server
PHP 5.5.1 Development Server started at Wed Aug 14 03:34:13 2013
Listening on http://localhost:8080
Document root is /Users/User/wp/core
Press Ctrl-C to quit.How is this different from Whippet?
The main difference is that we don't modify the wp-config.php file, so you can run other WP-CLI commands while the server is running.
Yep; just write a WordPress plugin that checks PHP_SAPI == 'cli-server' and redirects as appropriate.
For example, here's a working plugin for the Roots theme: leoj3n/wp-server-roots-rewrites.