I finally got around to build my own task runner but I'm stuck on a feature I really need, namely browserSync but I use php with XAMPP.
The problem: terminal keeps telling me "PHP server not started. Retrying...".
Since I'm new to all this I can't seem to figure out why the server's not connecting. Please help?
Here is my code:
// Required tasks
var gulp = require('gulp'),
connect = require('gulp-connect-php'),
browserSync = require('browser-sync'),
reload = browserSync.reload;
// Php Server Tasks
gulp.task('connect', function() {
connect.server({
base: './',
port: 8010,
keepalive: true
});
});
// Browser-Sync Tasks
gulp.task('browser-sync',['connect'], function() {
browserSync({
proxy: '127.0.0.1:8010',
port: 8080,
open: true,
notify: false
});
});
// Watch Tasks
gulp.task ('watch', function(){
gulp.watch('src/sass/**/*.scss', ['styles']);
gulp.watch('src/js/**/*.js', ['scripts']);
gulp.watch('./templates/**/*.php', ['html']);
});
// Default
gulp.task('default', ['browser-sync', 'watch']);
Can't remember where this solution popup but thought I'd share the code as it just may help someone else:
To be clear: I no longer make use of gulp-connect-php.
// BROWSER-SYNC TASKS
gulp.task('browser-sync', function() {
browserSync({
proxy: 'localhost/path/to/the/files',
open: true,
notify: false
});
});
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I uploaded my laravel site in shared hosting, my site is working well in localhost, but the CSS is not working on the server. I want to clear cache but not run artisan command in shared hosting. I tried following.
// Clear route cache:
Route::get('/route-clear', function () {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('route:clear');
return 'Routes cache cleared';
});
// Clear config cache:
Route::get('/config-cache', function () {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('config:cache');
return 'Config cache cleared';
});
// Clear application cache:
Route::get('/clear-cache', function () {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('cache:clear');
return 'Application cache cleared';
});
// Clear view cache:
Route::get('/view-clear', function () {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('view:clear');
return 'View cache cleared';
});
Go to the ProjectFolder/bootstrap/cache then rename config.php to anything you want eg. config.php_old and reload your site
I would like to use Browsersync with PHP, but I can't seem to get it to work properly.
Currently I am using Gulp. Is it possible to either use Browsersync with XAMPP/MAMP, or use a Gulp plugin to read .php files?
use gulp-connect-php
npm install --save-dev gulp-connect-php
then setup you gulpfile.js
var gulp = require('gulp'),
connect = require('gulp-connect-php'),
browserSync = require('browser-sync');
gulp.task('connect-sync', function() {
connect.server({}, function (){
browserSync({
proxy: '127.0.0.1:8000'
});
});
gulp.watch('**/*.php').on('change', function () {
browserSync.reload();
});
});
see documentation https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-connect-php
Also there is a good tutorial here https://phpocean.com/tutorials/front-end/automate-your-workflow-with-gulp-part-3-live-reloading/23
I have the same situation for a few days until I figure out that it happens because I didn't close my html output properly. BrowserSync needs to include some javascript text before to reload the browser. If the html, body tags are NOT closed or NOT present, BrowserSync has nowhere to include the script.
A proxy option is now available in browser-sync when using an external server.
Config docs : https://browsersync.io/docs/options#option-proxy
// Using a vhost-based url
proxy: "local.dev"
// Using a localhost address with a port
proxy: "localhost:8888"
// Using localhost sub directories
proxy: "localhost/site1"
Command line : https://browsersync.io/docs/command-line#start
browser-sync start --proxy "localhost:8080" --files "**/*"
I'm trying to use Elixir BrowserSync, one of the newest features of Laravel.
I added it to the gulp file
elixir(function(mix) {
mix.sass('app.scss')
.browserSync();
});
when I run "gulp watch" it output this message
[20:49:20] Using gulpfile ~/Desktop/laravel/gulpfile.js
[20:49:20] Starting 'watch'...
[20:49:20] Finished 'watch' after 11 ms
[BS] Proxying: http://homestead.app
[BS] Access URLs:
----------------------------------
Local: http://localhost:3000
External: http://10.9.0.48:3000
Automatically a browser is launched with the url http://localhost:3000 but nothing loads.
I think the problem is related to this line:
[BS] Proxying: http://homestead.app
You can if you use BrowserSyncs server.
mix.browserSync({
proxy: false,
server: {
baseDir: './'
}
});
Are you running multiple homestead sites? It looks like it defaults to proxying through homestead.app if you do not include a proxy setting. If you don't host your local on homestead.app it won't find it.
Try
.browserSync({ proxy: 'domain.app' });
Where domain.app is what you are serving the site with.
The direct answer to your question - it is not possible to not proxy the .browserSync. Long side-answer - you can still use elixir's implementation of browserSync in gulp, but you must have a separate PHP server to interpret the files.
Edit: I saw a way to not proxy by providing the script in the pages manually (by not giving any arguments in the .browserSync() call, but don't remember where and how to do it exactly.
The reason is that browserSync requests all the data from the server for you, injects a little javascript listener and displays everything else:
<script type='text/javascript' id="__bs_script__">//<![CDATA[document.write("<script async src='/browser-sync/browser-sync-client.2.9.11.js'><\/script>".replace("HOST", location.hostname));//]]></script>
One way is to php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 in a separate terminal to start up the server and then use the .browserSync({proxy: 'localhost:8000'}). It all works - the BrowserSync UI and all the calls to refresh the pages.
Note: I could not connect to artisan serve without the --host=0.0.0.0.
For those wanting an all automated solution via gulp, here it is:
Use the gulp packages gulp-connect-php and laravel-elixir-browsersync2. The first starts up the php artisan serve and the other connects it to browserSync.
Install the packages:
npm install laravel-elixir-browsersync2 --save-dev
npm install gulp-connect-php --save-dev
Add the required lines to your gulpfile.js:
Code:
var elixir = require('laravel-elixir'),
gulp = require('gulp');
var connectPHP = require('gulp-connect-php');
var BrowserSync = require('laravel-elixir-browsersync2');
elixir(function(mix) {
mix.sass('app.scss');
});
elixir(function(mix) {
connectPHP.server({
base: './public',
hostname: '0.0.0.0',
port: 8000
});
BrowserSync.init();
mix.BrowserSync(
{
proxy: 'localhost:8000',
logPrefix : "Laravel Eixir BrowserSync",
logConnections : false,
reloadOnRestart : false,
notify : false
});
});
Then - simply gulp.
Disclaimer: This might not work with the gulp watch, but there might be people with the answer to that.
There is also a line PHP server not started. Retrying... before the [Laravel Eixir BrowserSync] Proxying: http://localhost:8000. It belongs to gulp-connect-php when trying to check if the server is running.
I found other solution on laracast for Bloomanity and it works with me like a charm!
$ php artisan serve --host=0
and then in your gulp add:
mix.browserSync({proxy: 'localhost:8000'});
I had to redownload all of my dev tools after upgrading/reset on Windows 10. I can't seem to get my server working with gulp-connect-php, gulp-browser-sync, and http-proxy. The task (below) is actually from this answer: Gulp-webapp running BrowserSync and PHP.
This is on top of a generation of gulp-webapp from Yeoman. The regular "serve" works, but of course doesn't spin up PHP files. I had it working before the upgrade, but now the http-proxy errors out with an ECONNREFUSED when I try to bring up the URL. Note that it doesn't error out until I actually go to the URL, if the task is setup to not open the browser automatically, it won't error until I go to localhost:3000.
Any ideas the cause of this error?
Gulp Task
gulp.task('php-serve', ['styles', 'fonts'], () => {
phpConnect.server({
port: 9001,
base: 'app',
open: false
});
const proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({});
browserSync({
notify: false,
open: false,
port: 9000,
server: {
baseDir: ['.tmp', 'app'],
routes: {
'/bower_components': 'bower_components'
},
middleware: function (req, res, next) {
var url = req.url;
if (!url.match(/^\/(styles|fonts|bower_components)\//)) {
proxy.web(req, res, { target: 'http://127.0.0.1:9001' });
}
else {
next();
}
}
}
});
gulp.watch([
'app/*.html',
'app/*.php',
'app/scripts/**/*.js',
'app/images/**/*',
'.tmp/fonts/**/*'
]).on('change', reload);
gulp.watch('app/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles']);
gulp.watch('app/fonts/**/*', ['fonts']);
gulp.watch('bower.json', ['wiredep', 'fonts']);
});
Gulp Run Task with Error
$ gulp php-serve
[07:30:09] Requiring external module babel-core/register
[07:30:11] Using gulpfile ~\...\gulpfile.babel.js
[07:30:11] Starting 'styles'...
[07:30:12] Starting 'fonts'...
[07:30:12] Finished 'styles' after 1.08 s
[07:30:12] Finished 'fonts' after 306 ms
[07:30:12] Starting 'php-serve'...
[07:30:12] Finished 'php-serve' after 183 ms
[BS] Access URLs:
----------------------------------
Local: http://localhost:9000
External: http://x.x.x.x:9000
----------------------------------
UI: http://localhost:3001
UI External: http://x.x.x.x:3001
----------------------------------
[BS] Serving files from: .tmp
[BS] Serving files from: app
C:\...\node_modules\http-proxy\lib\http-proxy\index.js:119
throw err;
^
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1010:19)
I think I know the reason.
Check or you have php installed on your machine and added to your path variables.
open your command line and type:
$ php --version
If it returns:
sh.exe": php: command not found
It means it is not installed or not in the path variable.
You can install php by simply installing WAMP/XAMP or MAMP
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
To make sure it is in your path I like to use patheditor
https://patheditor2.codeplex.com/
There go through these simple steps
1) open Path Editor
2) click 'add' in the 'user' section
3) search the folder where php.exe is. (usually something like: C:/xampp/php)
4) click 'ok' and 'ok' again to close path editor
5) reopen your commandline tool and you will see that $ php --version will find the php.exe
Try to run your gulp task again. It should work!
There was a bad install of http-proxy and/or gulp-php-connect. I uninstalled them, cleared npm cache, and did a fresh install. Everything worked fine after that.
My main goal here is to adapt Yeoman's gulp-webapp development workflow to run PHP.
Specifically, I want to be able to use gulp-php-connect with multiple base directories (for the compiled CSS from Sass) and routes (for Bower dependencies), if that's even possible.
I'm able to run PHP with Gulp using the gulp-connect-php plugin, like this:
gulp.task('connect-php', function() {
connectPHP.server({
hostname: '0.0.0.0',
bin: '/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/bin/php',
ini: '/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/conf/php.ini',
port: 8000,
base: 'dev'
});
});
However, I'd like to take advantage of gulp-webapp's excellent but quite entangled development workflow architecture, which relies on BrowserSync, Sass compiler (compiles to a .css file into a .tmp folder, for development), auto-prefixer, and uses a bunch of other useful plugins.
Here's the part of it that I would like to adapt to use gulp-connect-php or any other PHP :
gulp.task('serve', ['styles'],function () {
browserSync({
notify: false,
port: 9000,
server: {
baseDir: ['.tmp', 'app'],
routes: {
'/bower_components': 'bower_components'
}
}
});
// watch for changes
gulp.watch([
'app/*.html',
'.tmp/styles/**/*.css',
'app/scripts/**/*.js',
'app/images/**/*'
]).on('change', reload);
gulp.watch('app/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles', reload]);
gulp.watch('bower.json', ['wiredep', 'fonts', reload]);
});
BrowserSync has a proxy option, that allows me to run it with gulp-connect-php server, which is pretty amazing. But I need gulp-connect-php it to use multiple base directories and routes, like BrowserSync does.
So far I've come up with this:
gulp.task('serve-php', ['styles','connect-php'],function () {
browserSync({
proxy: "localhost:8000"
});
// watch for changes
gulp.watch([
'app/*.php',
'app/styles/**/*.css',
'app/scripts/**/*.js',
'app/images/**/*'
]).on('change', reload);
gulp.watch('app/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles, reload]);
gulp.watch('bower.json', ['wiredep', 'fonts', reload]);
});
To temporarily fix the multiple base directories issue, I tweaked the styles task so it stores the compiled .css to /app instead of .tmp/. I'd prefer to have it on a temp folder though, because I don't need that compiled .css file hanging around there with my Sass files.
For the routes issue, I'm trying to tell wiredep plugin to change a path, say, from bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js to ../bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js, with no success.
All I could do was manually rename the paths in index.php, and it still doesn't work. When running gulp serve I get:
/bower_components/jquery/dist/modernizr.js - No such file or directory
...even though I changed the path in index.html to ../bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js.
I believe that doesn't work because the gulp-connect-php server can't see what's outside the base folder.
I'm trying different things, and though I've been pretty vague on this thread's title, I think that the cleanest solution would be to run multiple base directories and routes with gulp-connect-php, but I don't know if that's possible.
I spent a while trying to work this one out, but have a working solution now. The way I solved is was to use BrowserSync as the server, and added a middleware that proxies requests if they don't match a pattern...
Install the http-proxy package...
$ npm install --save-dev http-proxy
Add the proxy package to the top of the gulpfile.js...
var httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
Add a separate php server and a proxy server before the BrowserSync...
gulp.task('php-serve', ['styles', 'fonts'], function () {
connect.server({
port: 9001,
base: 'app',
open: false
});
var proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({});
// ...
Then add the middleware for the server to see if the request needs to be proxied...
// ...
server: {
baseDir : ['.tmp', 'app'],
routes : {
'/bower_components': 'bower_components'
},
// THIS IS THE ADDED MIDDLEWARE
middleware: function (req, res, next) {
var url = req.url;
if (!url.match(/^\/(styles|fonts|bower_components)\//)) {
proxy.web(req, res, { target: 'http://127.0.0.1:9001' });
} else {
next();
}
}
}
// ...
And here's the full tasks for completeness...
gulp.task('php-serve', ['styles', 'fonts'], function () {
connect.server({
port: 9001,
base: 'app',
open: false
});
var proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({});
browserSync({
notify: false,
port : 9000,
server: {
baseDir : ['.tmp', 'app'],
routes : {
'/bower_components': 'bower_components'
},
middleware: function (req, res, next) {
var url = req.url;
if (!url.match(/^\/(styles|fonts|bower_components)\//)) {
proxy.web(req, res, { target: 'http://127.0.0.1:9001' });
} else {
next();
}
}
}
});
// watch for changes
gulp.watch([
'app/*.html',
'app/*.php',
'app/scripts/**/*.js',
'app/images/**/*',
'.tmp/fonts/**/*'
]).on('change', reload);
gulp.watch('app/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles']);
gulp.watch('app/fonts/**/*', ['fonts']);
gulp.watch('bower.json', ['wiredep', 'fonts']);
});
Hope this saves you all the time I spent working this out! :o)
FWIW, I've got a quite simple and fair solution for that by placing the compiled .css file in the app/ root and moving /bower_dependencies folder inside the app/ folder.
For Sass, I only needed to change the path in the placeholder to <!-- build:css styles/main.css --> and change the dest in the styles task.
For the bower_components, I just edited bower_components in .bowerrc:
{
"directory": "app/bower_components"
}
and added this to the wiredep stream in gulpfile.js:
fileTypes: {
scss: {
replace: {
scss: '#import "app/{{filePath}}";'
}
}
},