I'm a bit new to php so I've never dealt with test servers before, but with the release of Google's Polymer project I now need a test server in order to go through their tutorial, so here it goes!
I use Intellij for all of my web coding and am having trouble trying to get a test server up and running. I'm on OSX and have downloaded things such as MAMP but can't seem to get the test server actually.. running with Intellij. Or know how to view my website on the test server with Intellij. I've looked up so many guides but just can't seem to figure it out.
Any help? Even a link to something useful? Please!
Thank you for any help!
You can start up a simple HTTP server for debugging purposes from any directory, if you have Python installed. Run:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
Now you can access the directory as a web site directory using:
http://localhost:8000
You'll need better alternatives as you explore more advanced stuff, but this works just fine as a starting point.
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Previously I used shared hosting, and the hosting company provided Apache Tomcat with PHP and MySQL. I have since switched to virtual private server hosting with Linux, so I can use a server of my choice, in particular Glassfish 4.1.1 for Java ServerFaces 2.2 applications, and have already deployed a war file for a particular application.
However, I have quite a lot of old code, including some PHP. I have put my old code in Glassfish's docroot folder and all the straight HTML5, JavaScript etc. work without any problems. How do I get the PHP code to work as before? In doing a Google search, it appears possible to deploy a war file from Quercus, but if this is done, how do I get PHP to work in the docroot folder?
I'm not aware of anybody who has done this before, so any advice would be most appreciated - thanks in advance.
I used GlassFish before with JSP. Now PHP has become the language of my choice. I feel like it's much more maintainable.
But to answer your question, in order to get PHP to work in the docroot server, you have to enable PHP on OracleGlassFish Server. From Oracle documentation :
1. Download the Quercus PHP interpreter from http://quercus.caucho.com/.
2. Deploy the downloaded WAR file to the GlassFish Server.
3. To verify that your PHP engine is working, enter the following URL in your browser:
http://localhost:8080/quercus-4.0.1/
4. Move your PHP application to a subdirectory of the Quercus directory.
5. To verify your PHP application is working, access your application from a browser.
For example, enter the following URL in your browser:
http://localhost:8080/quercus-4.0.1/myapp/
Also, this previous answer from SO may also help :
Allow Glassfish and PHP to work together in the same server using Apache
So I am fairly new to PHP and websockets and server management in general. But have been tasked with designing a web-app and have determined that the best way to implement this is with websockets. So I found ratchet. And began trying to get it to work. I have a linuxbox with apache already setup, and created a new directory in the webroot and began Ratchet's tutorial. However no matter what I did I could not get even the in-line telnet part working.
I have a composer.phar, I have their script within my composer.json, I followed their instructions for installing ratchet. however when I run the php chat_server.php command it doesn't seem to do anything. The tutorial states that it should take control of the console, and as I saw in a video tutorial it does.
So my ultimate question is - what is causing this not to run properly? Is it a bad installation (Did I mess up installing somewhere or just not install something that is required but was not explicitly stated?) all the code is identical to what is documented here http://socketo.me/docs/hello-world
Some questions when ratchet is not functioning while setting it up.
Is the php process (#php chat_server.php) open?
Are you telnetting from another cli?
can you check if the port on which the chat server should be running is allocated?(#netstat -pln)
Is the zmq library added to the apache modules? (Probably your problem)
If the above aren't working you might try to check if some firewall is blocking the connection internally.
I would suggest starting from a clean machine to execute all set up steps.
I am figuring out how to use PHP OpenId
I have cloned the repo to the ~/www directory. There are some examples in the php-open-id/examples directory which I wanted to run.
Specifically, I wanted to render the page php-open-id/examples/consumer/index.php in order to better understand the API. I started a server in the php-open-id/examples directory using
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
and I navigated to localhost://consumer/index.php
But it didn't work. It shows a dialog box to save the file. What is the correct way to render this PHP file?
I have found a solution :
Run the server using
php -S localhost:9000
Mac OS
Just Visit your project folder
open terminal on that folder
and Run php -S localhost:9000
then you can see
PHP 7.3.24-(to be removed in future macOS) Development Server started at Tue Mar 30 11:58:49 2021
Listening on http://localhost:9000
After that you are able to access your application on http://localhost:9000
if your port is not available try to change port
You need to have a php server for serving .php files. The simple python server is not a php server and therefore it is just simply listing the files in the directory for download.
If you are on OSX 10 or above, it comes with apache which has php module present and can be setup to serve php file.
Tutorials can be found here
http://php.net/manual/en/install.macosx.bundled.php and here https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3083
If you would like to setup a dedicated server instead of using apache, MAMP is a good solution. Google It and see tutorials on how to set it up.
Update November 2022:
Unfortunately, PHP has been removed from MacOS. This is a brief tutorial which explains how to get PHP working in Ventura.
I personally dislike the idea to compensate the lack of PHP with the activities outlined in the tutorial. My solution was to install Docker and to run a proper NGINX+PHP container. I consider it to be cleaner, more flexible and better to maintain rather than faffing about with half-baked on-board stuff. But that's a matter of taste, I guess.
Also, as suggested in one of the answers, using the Python approach is not hassle free in Ventura, since it requires xcode to be installed.
In MacOS 10.x I have also been working with the on-board Python and PHP. Having lost those tools as standard installations is annoying.
The short version of the story is that when I import MySQLdb in a script that I run from the browser, I always get 500 Internal Server Error.
The longer version:
Trying to learn web programming concepts. So far I've done a lot of work with PHP and MySQL using MAMP. I have created a big Javascript/PHP app and a big MySQL db to go with it. Now I'd like to learn Python, and I'd like to start with a familiar environment, namely, my MAMP setup and the db I've created.
I run my PHP scripts by entering localhost:8888/the-script.php in my browser. Now I have python scripts that run the same way, so I know python is working in my MAMP environment. What I haven't figured out yet is how to get my python scripts to talk to the MySQL db.
I installed Django, and I got it to see my db, but it wants to run its own server. I don't want that. I want my python scripts to run on the same server as my PHP scripts (I suppose I could try to get my PHP scripts to run on the Django server, but I'd rather consider that a last resort, to be taken only in desperation).
I've tried installing various packages with pip and macports, and I can run python from the command line and import MySQLdb, and it works fine. I've been all over stackoverflow and tried many of the applicable suggestions. I found a straightforward set of installation instructions that I thought might be the answer. But if I import MySQLdb in a script that I run from the browser, I always get 500 Internal Server Error.
I was hoping to learn python without first having to get a PhD in a lot of other areas like how Apache works internally, rebuilding MAMP and MySQL from the source code, etc. I realize that learning web programming concepts will eventually include those things, but I'm not ready for that. Right now I just want to learn python.
Is there a simple way to get a python script to run in the same environment as my PHP scripts, and interact with the same MySQL db that I've created for use with my PHP scripts?
Do I need a special library to run PHP on Windows environment Vista?
I can write simple message like echo "hello" but whenever I try to run any these scripts no error nothing display on the page http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php.
I'm new to PHP please help
When in doubt...
<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
If that code outputs information regarding your PHP version and settings, PHP is installed correctly.
There would be errors in your code if nothing is displaying. Post the code you are having trouble with and we can help you out.
Have you actually set up a local server? You'll need this to run PHP scripts. For a newbie I'd recommend WampServer since it's really easy and handles all the complexity of installing a server. Once installed and running, try http://localhost/ in your web browser.
Based on your comment though, I think the problem is that the sample code on the page you posted won't work on their own, you'd need to combine them with other things. For example the first one references a variable $user_input which you'd replace with a variable taken from user input (eg a form) on your site.
I suggest finding some tutorials online (or buy a book) and walk through various proper examples to familiarise yourself with PHP.
Do you have PHP / Apache installed at the moment? If you don't, try XAMPP. It comes with an easy and convenient installer.
Like most languages your computer must have the language/compiler installed in order develop and run scripts/applications. PHP was originally designed for web development so you won't usually find it installed on PCs by default.
The easiest way to develop PHP is to upload the scripts to a web server that has PHP installed and then test in your browser in the same fashion that you'd test an HTML page.
Otherwise to do it locally on your computer you can install a web development environment which acts like a web server. Essentially eliminating the upload step.
I believe the most popular for Windows is Wamp Server